Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, 0.3–1 dm.

(petiole slender);

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

(rosulate; petiole winged);

blade orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire or with broad, obscure toothlike angles each side at apex, (apex obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes appressed).

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

blade broadly spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire.

congested.

condensed, (subumbellate to slightly more elongated, few-flowered).

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

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

sepals (yellowish, often with some purple), narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm;

petals spatulate, 7.3–9.2 mm, (not clawed).

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

(divaricate-ascending, straight to slightly curved), 6–10 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).

didymous, irregular, suborbicular, deeply bilobed, inflated in age, 10–12 × 12–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent or obsolete, apical sinus deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, (ovaries and immature fruit downy);

replum narrowly ovate to broadly oblong, not narrowed at middle, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–7 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8, 10, 16, 24.