Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or lateral decumbent, (unbranched), 1–2 dm.

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

(petiole usually winged);

blade broadly oblanceolate, 3–8 cm, margins usually dentate or pinnatifid, rarely subentire, (terminal lobe acute or obtuse, not rounded).

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

blade spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–3 cm, margins usually entire, rarely toothed, (apex acute).

(sessile);

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

loose (and greatly elongated in fruit) to congested.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–11 mm.

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).

(recurved), 6–15 mm.

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

(usually pendent on arching pedicels, less frequently widely divergent), irregular in shape, (base obtuse or slightly cordate, apex deeply and broadly notched), not strongly inflated, 8–11 × 8–12 mm, (papery);

valves retaining seeds after dehiscence;

replum linear-oblong, constricted, 2.5–4 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–8 mm.

(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.

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.