Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 dm.

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

(petiole slender);

blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute).

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire.

(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).

subcorymbose.

sepals (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3–6(–7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3–1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–10(–12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

sepals oblong, 8–10 mm;

petals spatulate, 12–14 mm.

(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4–8(–12) mm.

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm.

broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3–6mm;

valves sparsely pubescent;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6–8 per ovary;

style 3–6.5 mm.

didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent;

replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate;

ovules 8–10 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

plump.

flattened, (2–3 mm).

= 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70.