Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

(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).

(petiole tapering to blade);

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

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

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

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

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

dense, (somewhat elongated in fruit).

crowded, elongated.

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).

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).

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

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

(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.

somewhat flattened.

flattened.

= 10.