Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, usually erect to spreading, sometimes prostrate, 0.5–2 dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm.

blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire.

blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid.

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed.

loose.

usually loose.

sepals ovate to elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm, (median pair often thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate, (6–)7–10 mm (nearly as wide, abruptly narrowed to claw, ca. 1 mm wide).

sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate);

petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate).

(erect to divaricate or ascending, sometimes curved), (5–)10–20(–40) mm, (stout).

(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm.

subglobose to ellipsoid, compressed (usually angustiseptate), to 8 mm; (valves not retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 10–14 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded).

plump.

flattened, (margined).

= 20.

= 10.