Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, (usually unbranched), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm.

(tufted);

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

(petiole slender);

blade suborbicular to obovate or elliptic, 1–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually or abruptly to petiole), margins sinuate-dentate or entire.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire or remotely dentate.

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

dense or loose.

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

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4.5–7 mm, (median pair cucullate);

petals spatulate, 7–9(–14) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(sigmoid or curved), 5–10(–15) 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.

(erect), ellipsoid to obovoid, compressed at apex and sometimes margins (strongly latiseptate), (5–)6–9 mm, (apex acute, often beaked);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes 4- or 5-rayed;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style (2–)3–6.5 mm, (often sparsely pubescent).

somewhat flattened.

inner surface flattened, outer convex.