Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, slender), 0.5–1 dm.

few or several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (unbranched or branched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

(strongly rosulate);

blade usually oblanceolate or broader, sometimes triangular, 2–3.5 cm (width 5–10 mm), margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex acute).

blades orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins usually entire, rarely remotely dentate.

blade oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm (width 2–4 mm), margins entire, (apex acute).

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm, (apex often somewhat truncate).

sepals ovate or oblong-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals cuneate or broadly obovate, ca. 7 mm, (sometimes slightly narrowed to a broad claw, apex sometimes retuse).

(spreading, straight or somewhat sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

(sharply recurved), 5–10 mm, (stout).

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, 2–5(–8) × 4–8(–10)mm, (coriaceous, base slightly cordate or nearly obtuse, sinus obsolete or absent, apical sinus broad and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed, (silvery on ovaries and immature fruit);

replum obovate to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, rarely somewhat constricted basally, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

subglobose to broadly obovoid, strongly inflated (often slightly angustiseptate), 5–7 mm, (papery);

valves sparsely pubescent; (septum fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

slightly flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 8.