Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or several from base, spreading, (unbranched, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 dm.

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

blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire or nearly so.

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 0.4–1.2 cm, margins entire.

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

loose, (few-flowered).

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 linear, lanceolate, or elliptic, 3.5–6.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals oblanceolate, 5.5–9(–10) mm.

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

(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 4–7 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.

globose or subglobose, not or slightly compressed, 3.5–4.3 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, 3–6-rayed, (appearing shaggy);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 4.5–7 mm.

plump.

slightly flattened, (suborbicular).