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, decumbent, (straggling and flexuous, usually branched distally), 4–8 dm.

(tufted);

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

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

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

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–4 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or remotely dentate, (apex acute).

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

loose, (sometimes greatly elongated).

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

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals elliptic, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals broadly obovate, 4–5 mm, (sometimes with short, broad claw).

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(recurved), 15–20(–25) 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.

(pendent), subglobose or broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

ovules per ovary unknown;

style 1.5–2 mm.

somewhat flattened.

flattened.

= 16.