Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, erect, (usually unbranched), to 4.5 dm.

few to several from base, ascending (in flower) to nearly prostrate (in fruit), (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm.

blade suborbicular to elliptic, 2–9.5(–11.5) cm, margins entire, sinuate, coarsely dentate, or almost lyrate-pinnatifid.

(petiole 1–3.5 cm);

blade ovate to rhombic or rotund, 2–7 cm, (base narrowed abruptly to petiole), margins usually entire, occasionally shallowly repand, (flat).

similar to basal, blade narrowly linear or, sometimes, orbicular.

blade elliptic or narrowly so, (0.7–)1–2.5 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire.

loose (lax).

dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals elliptic or ovate, (2–)3.5–7.5 mm, (cucullate);

petals 6–11 mm.

sepals (lavender under grayish trichomes), elliptic, 4–6 mm;

petals (white, pale yellow basally, often tinged lavender abaxially), narrowly spatulate, 6–10 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(recurved, straight, curved, or sigmoid), 6–20 mm.

(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), (4–)6–12 mm, (stout).

obovoid to subglobose, not inflated (not angustiseptate), 3–6 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes glabrous inside, trichomes sessile or stalked;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style (1.6–)3–6 mm.

subglobose to ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 4–6 mm.

flattened.

flattened, (faintly margined).

= 10, 30.