Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, prostrate, (arising lateral to rosette), 0.1–0.5 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade suborbicular, (1–)2.5(–3) cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat), (surfaces densely silvery pubescent, trichomes in multiple layers, appressed).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(2–4);

blade oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm, (base cuneate), margins entire, (apex acute).

loose.

condensed.

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (erect, purplish to greenish), linear-oblong or boat-shaped, 5.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair more saccate than median);

petals (white), spatulate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(divaricate-ascending, nearly straight), 6–10 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.

strongly didymous, irregular in shape and size, (base slightly cordate, apex with a deep closed sinus), strongly to somewhat inflated, 6–8 × 6–8 mm (± bladderlike, papery);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent;

replum elliptic to obovate, not constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (sparsely pubescent or glabrous).

plump.