Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or several from base, decumbent or erect, (unbranched), to 2 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

(petiole sharply differentiated from blade, slender);

blade suborbicular or obovate to rhombic, 4–8 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial lightly pubescent).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic, 0.8–2.3 cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed.

loose.

dense, (somewhat elongated in fruit).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic or oblong, ca. 6 mm, (lateral pair not saccate or subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate, ca. 9 mm, (claw expanded at base).

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

(horizontal to ascending, sigmoid or slightly curved), 8–11 mm, (stout).

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, often becoming copper-red in age), subglobose or ellipsoid, inflated, 6–9 mm, (firm, glossy);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary;

style 3.5–7 mm.

somewhat flattened.