Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, decumbent, (straggling and flexuous, usually branched distally), 4–8 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–4 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or remotely dentate, (apex acute).

loose.

loose, (sometimes greatly elongated).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals broadly obovate, 4–5 mm, (sometimes with short, broad claw).

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

(recurved), 15–20(–25) 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), subglobose or broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

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

ovules per ovary unknown;

style 1.5–2 mm.

flattened.

= 16.