Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

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

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

loose, (few-flowered).

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

petals oblanceolate, 5.5–9(–10) mm.

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

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

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.

flattened.

slightly flattened, (suborbicular).