Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, 0.3–1 dm.

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

(rosulate; petiole winged);

blade orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire or with broad, obscure toothlike angles each side at apex, (apex obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes appressed).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

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

blade broadly spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire.

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

condensed, (subumbellate to slightly more elongated, 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 (yellowish, often with some purple), narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm;

petals spatulate, 7.3–9.2 mm, (not clawed).

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

(divaricate-ascending, straight to slightly curved), 6–10 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.

didymous, irregular, suborbicular, deeply bilobed, inflated in age, 10–12 × 12–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent or obsolete, apical sinus deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, (ovaries and immature fruit downy);

replum narrowly ovate to broadly oblong, not narrowed at middle, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–7 mm.

flattened.

flattened.