Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm.

few from base, decumbent, (arising laterally proximal to current season’s leaves), 0.3–0.8 dm.

blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire.

(petiole slender);

blade broadly obovate, or deltate to ovate or narrower, 1.5–3.5 cm, (base abruptly to gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire or obscurely few-toothed, (apex usually obtuse, nearly acute in narrower leaves).

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

(2–5 per stem);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire, (apex acute).

dense (distally, subumbellate).

loose, (3–6-flowered).

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

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

petals (erect), spatulate, 10–12(–15) mm.

(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent).

(widely spreading to ascending, slightly curved or straight), 7–11 mm.

(erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent;

replum ovate to obovate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

(usually purplish in age), didymous, irregular and somewhat angular, not highly inflated, 4–11 × 10–13 mm, (coriaceous, papery, shallowly grooved distally and on sides, tapered and narrowed toward replum, base obtuse to truncate, apex with broad sinus to nearly truncate);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, not silvery;

replum elliptic to obovate, as wide as or wider than fruit, base rounded, margins sparsely pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded (with funicles);

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm, (glabrous).

plump.

flattened.

= 10.