Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (usually unbranched, rarely branched distally), 1–3 dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate or straggling to erect, (sometimes purplish, usually unbranched), (0.5–)1–2(–3) dm.

(tufted);

blade broadly obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex rounded to obtuse).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5(–7) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate, (flat).

blade oblanceolate to nearly oblong, similar to basal, (base cuneate), margins entire.

blade elliptic to linear, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3) cm, margins usually entire.

(secund), loose, (elongated in fruit).

(secund), dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals (yellowish), elliptic to lanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong, 4–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (often red or lavender when dried), obovate, 6–8.5(–9.5) mm, (narrowing to broad claw).

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(usually sharply recurved, sometimes divaricate-spreading or nearly horizontal), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

(usually pendent), elliptic to subglobose, usually slightly compressed (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, sometimes with scattered trichomes inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style ca. 3 mm.

subglobose, obovoid, or broadly ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (3.5–)4–5.5(–6.5) mm;

valves densely pubescent outside, trichomes spreading or closely appressed, rarely sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (4–)8(–10) per ovary;

style (slender), 3–5.5(–6.5) mm.

somewhat flattened.

slightly flattened.