Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to ascending (arising laterally, unbranched, stout), (0.2–)0.5–1.7 dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

(petiole somewhat winged);

blades orbicular to obovate, 2–6 cm (width 1–2.5 cm, thick), margins usually repand, rarely entire, (adaxial surface scurfy).

blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4(–6) cm.

blade oblanceolate to broadly spatulate, 1–2 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire, (apex obtuse to subacute).

(shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–2(–3) cm, margins entire.

moderately dense (or elongated).

loose, (sometimes elongated).

sepals linear-oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–12 mm.

sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm;

petals obovate to oblanceolate, (5–)7–8.5(–10) mm.

(divergent, straight to somewhat curved or sigmoid), 5–12 mm.

(sigmoid), 5–10 mm.

(erect), didymous, cordate, moderately inflated, (6–)10–20 × 10–23 mm, (papery, base obtuse or with obscure sinus, apical sinus deep, broad);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely and loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

replum linear-oblong, constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 4–5(–9) mm.

obcordate to truncate or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate, inflated at lobe tips), 3–6mm (wider than long);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or slightly spreading; (septum usually fenestrate);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style (slender), 3–6.5 mm, (often pubescent).

plump, (broad).

flattened.

= 8, 16.

= 10.