Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 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 rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire.

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

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

loose (and greatly elongated in fruit) to congested.

dense (distally, subumbellate).

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–11 mm.

sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

(recurved), 6–15 mm.

(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent).

(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), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent;

replum ovate to obovate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 10.