Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, spreading or erect, (unbranched), ca. 1 dm.

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

(petiole long, slender);

blade elliptic to obovate, 3–4 cm, (base narrowing to petiole), margins entire.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

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

(shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire.

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

dense.

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 narrowly elliptic or oblong, ca. 4.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals narrowly spatulate, 7–8 mm.

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

(sigmoid), 5–8 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.

(erect, substipitate), globose, ellipsoid, or obovoid, not or slightly compressed, 3–4 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes few trichomes inside;

ovules 10–12 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

flattened.

flattened.