Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, erect, (unbranched, sparsely leaved), to 7 dm.

several from base, erect or decumbent (arising laterally, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 mm.

blade elliptic or obovate to oblong, 4–15 cm, margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid.

(petiole slender);

blade obovate to orbicular, 3–6 cm (width 10–20 mm), margins entire or dentate.

(proximal often narrowed to short petiole, distal sessile);

blade broadly elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins entire.

blade spatulate, 1–2 cm (width 3–6 mm), margins entire, (apex often acute).

dense or slightly elongated.

congested.

sepals elliptic to ovate, 3.5–6(–7) mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white, often purple-veined, fading purplish), suborbicular to obovate, obdeltate, or cuneate, 4.5–10(–12) mm, (often narrowed to broad claw, apex emarginate, less frequently claw undifferentiated from blade).

sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5–8(–9) mm;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(spreading or recurved, loosely sigmoid), 5–25 mm.

(divaricate, slightly sigmoid), 8–15 mm.

(pendent or horizontal, sessile or substipitate), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary;

style 1–3(–4) mm.

(often purplish in age), didymous, subreniform, strongly inflated, 9–18 × 11–21(–30) mm, (papery, base obtuse to slightly cordate, apical sinus V-shaped or convex, open crests rounded);

valves (2-keeled on side away from replum, each 3-sided, keels rounded, sides flat or slightly convex, retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly and densely pubescent;

replum oblong, as wide as or wider than fruits, apex obtuse;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style (4–)6–8 mm (exceeding sinus).

flattened.

flattened.

= 18, 36.

= 8, 10, 16, 24.