Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (unbranched, mostly filiform, slender), 1–1.5 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

(erect, petiole slender);

blades broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.5–1 cm, (base abruptly narrowing to petiole), margins entire.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(remote, distally shortly petiolate);

blade ± spatulate, (base cuneate), margins entire.

loose.

lax, (elongated, few-flowered).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (erect), oblong, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals (often fading to light purple apically), spatulate to nearly lingulate, 6–7 mm.

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

(recurved to widely spreading, filiform, slender), 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.

(pendent), globose or subglobose, compressed, 3–4 mm;

valves ± densely pubescent;

ovules 6–10 per ovary;

style ca. 1.5 mm.

not seen.