Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, prostrate, (arising lateral to rosette), 0.1–0.5 dm.

(tufted);

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

blade suborbicular, (1–)2.5(–3) cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat), (surfaces densely silvery pubescent, trichomes in multiple layers, appressed).

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

(2–4);

blade oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm, (base cuneate), margins entire, (apex acute).

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

condensed.

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

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals (erect, purplish to greenish), linear-oblong or boat-shaped, 5.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair more saccate than median);

petals (white), spatulate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(divaricate-ascending, nearly straight), 6–10 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.

strongly didymous, irregular in shape and size, (base slightly cordate, apex with a deep closed sinus), strongly to somewhat inflated, 6–8 × 6–8 mm (± bladderlike, papery);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent;

replum elliptic to obovate, not constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (sparsely pubescent or glabrous).

somewhat flattened.

plump.