Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm.

simple or several from base, decumbent or erect, (unbranched), to 2 dm.

(tufted, erect);

blade linear to very narrowly spatulate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire (involute).

(petiole sharply differentiated from blade, slender);

blade suborbicular or obovate to rhombic, 4–8 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial lightly pubescent).

similar to basal.

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic, 0.8–2.3 cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed.

relatively dense.

dense, (somewhat elongated in fruit).

sepals (greenish yellow), elliptic, 3.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm, (not clawed).

sepals elliptic or oblong, ca. 6 mm, (lateral pair not saccate or subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate, ca. 9 mm, (claw expanded at base).

(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 2–10 mm.

(horizontal to ascending, sigmoid or slightly curved), 8–11 mm, (stout).

(erect), ovoid (or longer than broad), usually inflated, 4–5 mm, (apex acute, slightly flattened);

valves pubescent, trichomes appressed;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–4 mm.

(sessile or substipitate, often becoming copper-red in age), subglobose or ellipsoid, inflated, 6–9 mm, (firm, glossy);

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary;

style 3.5–7 mm.

flattened, (mucilaginous).

somewhat flattened.

= 10, 20.