Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm.

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

blade suborbicular to narrowly or broadly oblanceolate to broadly elliptic or rhombic, (1.2–)2–6(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or lobed.

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

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire.

(petiolate or distal nearly sessile);

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

(usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit).

dense, congested, (few-flowered).

sepals lanceolate, 4–6(–7) mm;

petals (yellow, cream-yellow, cream-white, or white), obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade).

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

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

(erect to divaricate-ascending or recurved, erect in distal 1/3, usually sigmoid, sometimes straight or slightly curved), 4.5–10(–15) mm.

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

(sessile or substipitate), subglobose, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed (sometimes slightly angustiseptate), 3–9 mm, (rigid, apex truncate, retuse, or rounded-acute);

valves sparsely or densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; (septum sometimes fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete);

ovules 4–16 per ovary;

style 1–9 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.

flattened (sometimes slightly).

slightly flattened, (ellipsoid to suborbicular).