Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched, stout, usually sparsely leaved), 1–3 dm.

simple or several from base, decumbent or erect, (unbranched), to 2 dm.

blade linear, 2–7(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

(petiole sharply differentiated from blade, slender);

blade suborbicular or obovate to rhombic, 4–8 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial lightly pubescent).

(sessile);

blade (erect), spatulate to linear, (1–)2–3(–4.5) cm, margins entire, sometimes involute, (apex acute or subacute).

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic, 0.8–2.3 cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

dense, (somewhat elongated in fruit).

sepals ovate or oblong, (4.5–)5–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened, cucullate apically);

petals spatulate, 7–9(–11) mm (widened at base, slightly retuse).

sepals elliptic or oblong, ca. 6 mm, (lateral pair not saccate or subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate, ca. 9 mm, (claw expanded at base).

(spreading, sharply sigmoid), 8–15 mm.

(horizontal to ascending, sigmoid or slightly curved), 8–11 mm, (stout).

(sessile or substipitate), ovate to oblong, not compressed at distal margins or apex, 5–9 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

(sessile or substipitate, often becoming copper-red in age), subglobose or ellipsoid, inflated, 6–9 mm, (firm, glossy);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary;

style 3.5–7 mm.

flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.