Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, usually decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally, unbranched, coarse), 1–2 dm.

simple or several from base, spreading, (unbranched, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 dm.

blade pandurate or obovate, 3–6 cm, margins usually deeply and broadly incised, rarely subentire, (apex obtuse).

blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire or nearly so.

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, (3–6 mm wide), margins entire, (apex often somewhat acute).

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 0.4–1.2 cm, margins entire.

congested, (elongated in fruit).

loose, (few-flowered).

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals linear, lanceolate, or elliptic, 3.5–6.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals oblanceolate, 5.5–9(–10) mm.

(usually curving upward, sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 4–7 mm.

didymous, irregular in shape, somewhat angular, inflated, 5–7 × 6–8 mm, (papery, often rigid, base obtuse or truncate, apical sinus broad, open and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes spreading, loose;

replum oblong, often constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

globose or subglobose, not or slightly compressed, 3.5–4.3 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, 3–6-rayed, (appearing shaggy);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 4.5–7 mm.

flattened.

slightly flattened, (suborbicular).

= 8, 16.