Flora of North America species comparison

usually simple.

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

usually few from base, erect or outer decumbent, 1.5–2.5 dm.

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

blade (outer) often broadly elliptic, base narrowing gradually to petiole, margins sinuate to dentate (or blade deltate, less than 1 cm, base abruptly narrowed to petiole).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

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

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

usually elongated.

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).

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

(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.

flattened.

white, (9–)11–15 mm, often 2 times as long as sepals.

= 12.