Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, ascending to erect (arising laterally, unbranched), 0.5–1(–2.5) dm.

few to several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, 0.5–4 dm.

(ascending to erect, petiole slender);

blade oblanceolate to obovate, 3–8 cm, (base tapering to petiole), margins incised or dentate with broad teeth, (apex acute to obtuse).

(long-petiolate);

blade elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 2–6(–9) cm, margins entire.

blade linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, 1–2 cm, margins entire.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 1–3 cm, (proximal broader), margins entire.

dense (elongated or not in fruit, 2.5–8.5(–10) cm).

dense, (relatively short).

sepals (greenish yellow), lanceolate, 6–8.5 mm, (saccate and cucullate);

petals spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 7–10(–12) mm.

sepals elliptic or narrowly oblong, 4–5.4 mm, (tapered to apex);

petals (white, base and claw yellow, conspicuously purple-veined), usually broadly obovate or rhombic, 6–10 mm, (± equal to blade, tapering to slender claw).

(divaricate, straight), 5–11(–15) mm, (rigid, fruits not pendent on arching pedicels).

(erect to spreading, ascending, or (proximal) horizontal, straight to slightly curved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 6–12(–20) mm.

didymous, sides curved and angular, highly inflated, 6–16 × 8–12 mm, (papery, apical sinus broad and concave);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence, distinctly 2-keeled on side away from replum), pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum linear to linear-lanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–9 mm, (usually not exceeding sinus).

(sessile or substipitate, often reddish magenta), usually ovoid to subglobose, inflated, 4–6(–7) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

septum perforate;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 1.5–4 mm.

slightly flattened, (ovate).

somewhat flattened.

= 12.