Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (arising laterally, unbranched), 1–3 dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

(numerous); (petiole slender, rarely with a few broad teeth);

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4(–6) cm.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–2(–3) cm, margins entire.

loose.

loose, (sometimes elongated).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals (yellow to purplish), spatulate, 8–12 mm.

sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm;

petals obovate to oblanceolate, (5–)7–8.5(–10) mm.

(ascending or spreading, slightly curved or sigmoid), 1–2 cm.

(sigmoid), 5–10 mm.

obcordate, angustiseptate, somewhat inflated, (not bladdery), 5–7 × 6–9 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

replum ovate, 5–7 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute or obtuse;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

obcordate to truncate or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate, inflated at lobe tips), 3–6mm (wider than long);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or slightly spreading; (septum usually fenestrate);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style (slender), 3–6.5 mm, (often pubescent).

flattened.

= 10.