Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few from base, ascending to erect, (0.5–)1–2(–3.5) dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

(petiole tapering to blade);

blade rhombic to elliptic and irregularly angular, sometimes spatulate to oblanceolate, 1.5–7.5(–10) cm, margins entire.

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

(not or loosely overlapping, petiolate or distal sessile);

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–4 cm, margins entire.

(shortly petiolate);

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

crowded, elongated.

loose, (sometimes elongated).

sepals ovate, oblong, or elliptic 4–7.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate or broadly cuneate, 6–13 mm, (claw slightly expanded at base).

sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm;

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

(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 6–12(–20) mm.

(sigmoid), 5–10 mm.

(substipitate), globose or obovoid to ellipsoid, sometimes slightly obcompressed, 4–9 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–24 per ovary;

style (2–)4–7 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).

flattened.

flattened.

= 10.

= 10.