Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or somewhat decumbent, (unbranched), 1–3.5 dm.

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

(petiole slender, usually incised or with broad teeth along petiole);

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

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

blade oblanceolate or broader, 1.5–2.5 cm, margins entire or sparsely dentate, (apex acute).

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

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

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, 5–7 mm;

petals (lemon yellow), spatulate, 9–12 mm.

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

(spreading or ascending, curved, fruits not pendent), 10–20 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, obreniform, moderately inflated, angustispetate, (8–)10–12(–15) × 10–14(–16) mm, (papery, not keeled, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence, rounded or irregular), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

replum broadly lanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute;

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

plump.

flattened.

= 8.