Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect, (from basal leaf cluster, branched distally, flowering branches slender, subtended by bracts), 3–6 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate or broadly obovate, to 10 cm, margins usually sinuate-dentate or entire, sometimes lobed.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, similar to basal, (distal with base slightly cuneate).

loose.

paniculate, (rachises and pedicels more densely pubescent than proximal leaves).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic, 3–7 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white), broadly ovate, to 12 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

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

(widely divaricate-ascending and straight, or slightly recurved), 10–15 mm, (slender, pubescent).

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.

(widely spreading to nearly pendent in age, shortly stipitate), globose or subglobose, not or slightly inflated, 3–10 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style ca. 2 mm, (slender, fragile).

flattened.

= 12.