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, ascending (in flower) to nearly prostrate (in fruit), (unbranched), 1–2.5 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).

(petiole 1–3.5 cm);

blade ovate to rhombic or rotund, 2–7 cm, (base narrowed abruptly to petiole), margins usually entire, occasionally shallowly repand, (flat).

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

blade elliptic or narrowly so, (0.7–)1–2.5 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire.

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

dense, (elongated in fruit).

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

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

sepals (lavender under grayish trichomes), elliptic, 4–6 mm;

petals (white, pale yellow basally, often tinged lavender abaxially), narrowly spatulate, 6–10 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), (4–)6–12 mm, (stout).

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).

subglobose to ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 4–6 mm.

slightly flattened, (ovate).

flattened, (faintly margined).