Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or decumbent (arising laterally, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 mm.

several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent or procumbent, (sometimes much-branched distally), to 6 dm.

(petiole slender);

blade obovate to orbicular, 3–6 cm (width 10–20 mm), margins entire or dentate.

blade obovate or rhombic, to ca. 2.5 cm, margins usually shallowly dentate, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid.

blade spatulate, 1–2 cm (width 3–6 mm), margins entire, (apex often acute).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic or oblanceolate, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or shallowly and remotely dentate.

congested.

usually dense, (several-flowered).

sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5–8(–9) mm;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

sepals ovate or oblong (tapering at base), 3.6–4.8(–5.3) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate to spatulate, 4.5–7.5 mm, (blade narrowed to broad claw, margins sinuate).

(divaricate, slightly sigmoid), 8–15 mm.

(strongly recurved), to 20 mm.

(often purplish in age), didymous, subreniform, strongly inflated, 9–18 × 11–21(–30) mm, (papery, base obtuse to slightly cordate, apical sinus V-shaped or convex, open crests rounded);

valves (2-keeled on side away from replum, each 3-sided, keels rounded, sides flat or slightly convex, retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly and densely pubescent;

replum oblong, as wide as or wider than fruits, apex obtuse;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style (4–)6–8 mm (exceeding sinus).

(± pendent), ovoid, obcompressed, or globose, compressed, 4–6(–8) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, sparsely pubescent inside;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6, per ovary;

style 2.5–3.6 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8, 10, 16, 24.

= 14.