Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (unbranched, mostly filiform, slender), 1–1.5 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).

(erect, petiole slender);

blades broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.5–1 cm, (base abruptly narrowing to petiole), margins entire.

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

(remote, distally shortly petiolate);

blade ± spatulate, (base cuneate), margins entire.

moderately dense (or elongated).

lax, (elongated, few-flowered).

sepals linear-oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–12 mm.

sepals (erect), oblong, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals (often fading to light purple apically), spatulate to nearly lingulate, 6–7 mm.

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

(recurved to widely spreading, filiform, slender), 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.

(pendent), globose or subglobose, compressed, 3–4 mm;

valves ± densely pubescent;

ovules 6–10 per ovary;

style ca. 1.5 mm.

plump, (broad).

not seen.

= 8, 16.