Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, decumbent, (occasionally few-branched), 0.5–1.5(–2) 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 elliptic to broadly obovate, triangular, rhombic, or round, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins often sinuate or shallowly lobed.

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, (base narrowed to petiole), margins entire.

loose (and greatly elongated in fruit) to congested.

compact to loose.

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–11 mm.

sepals oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–7.5 mm, (lateral pair saccate or not);

petals spatulate, 7.5–10 mm.

(recurved), 6–15 mm.

(ascending or divaricate-spreading, straight to loosely sigmoid or curved), 4–10 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), elliptic, suborbicular, or oblong, strongly compressed (angustiseptate), 5–9 mm, (rounded to sharply keeled on 1 side, edges ± keeled);

valves: (margins covering replum edges or not), usually pubescent throughout or, rarely, glabrous inside;

ovules (4–)8–14(–16) per ovary;

style 2–4.5(–5) mm.

flattened.

slightly flattened.