Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, (usually unbranched), 0.3–1.5(–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).

(petiole slender);

blade suborbicular to obovate or elliptic, 1–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually or abruptly to petiole), margins sinuate-dentate or entire.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire or remotely dentate.

loose (and greatly elongated in fruit) to congested.

dense or loose.

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–11 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4.5–7 mm, (median pair cucullate);

petals spatulate, 7–9(–14) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(recurved), 6–15 mm.

(sigmoid or curved), 5–10(–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.

(erect), ellipsoid to obovoid, compressed at apex and sometimes margins (strongly latiseptate), (5–)6–9 mm, (apex acute, often beaked);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes 4- or 5-rayed;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style (2–)3–6.5 mm, (often sparsely pubescent).

flattened.

inner surface flattened, outer convex.