Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, decumbent, 0.5–1(–2) dm, (rather stout, sparsely pubescent).

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade elliptic to suborbicular, 1.5–3.5(–5.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate (at base, surfaces densely pubescent, silvery).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(petiolate or distal nearly sessile);

blade elliptic to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

loose.

dense, congested, (few-flowered).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 3.8–5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals narrowly lanceolate to linear, 6–10(–13) mm.

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

(spreading or recurved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 2–6.5 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.

(sessile or substipitate), broadly obcordate, obdeltate, or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate), 3–5(–7) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, trichomes appressed;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style (1.8–)3–6(–7) mm.

slightly flattened, (ellipsoid to suborbicular).