Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm.

several from base, erect or lateral decumbent, (unbranched), 1–2 dm.

blade suborbicular to elliptic or ovate or deltate, 0.5–2(–6.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.

(petiole usually winged);

blade broadly oblanceolate, 3–8 cm, margins usually dentate or pinnatifid, rarely subentire, (terminal lobe acute or obtuse, not rounded).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire.

blade spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–3 cm, margins usually entire, rarely toothed, (apex acute).

compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not).

loose (and greatly elongated in fruit) to congested.

sepals ± elliptic, 4.5–7(–8.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically);

petals (sometimes white), suborbicular to obovate or obdeltate, 6.5–15 mm, (base narrowing to broad claw, apex sometimes emarginated).

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–11 mm.

(usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

(recurved), 6–15 mm.

(sessile or shortly stipitate, less than 1 mm), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, inflated or slightly compressed (terete or subterete), (4–)5–8(–9) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style 4–8(–9) mm.

(usually pendent on arching pedicels, less frequently widely divergent), irregular in shape, (base obtuse or slightly cordate, apex deeply and broadly notched), not strongly inflated, 8–11 × 8–12 mm, (papery);

valves retaining seeds after dehiscence;

replum linear-oblong, constricted, 2.5–4 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–8 mm.

flattened.

flattened.