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 to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

(tufted);

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

blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4(–6) cm.

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

(shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–2(–3) cm, margins entire.

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

loose, (sometimes elongated).

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

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm;

petals obovate to oblanceolate, (5–)7–8.5(–10) mm.

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(sigmoid), 5–10 mm.

(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.

obcordate to truncate or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate, inflated at lobe tips), 3–6mm (wider than long);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or slightly spreading; (septum usually fenestrate);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style (slender), 3–6.5 mm, (often pubescent).

somewhat flattened.

flattened.

= 10.