Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 dm.

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

blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

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

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).

congested, (elongated in fruit).

(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3–6(–7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3–1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–10(–12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4–8(–12) 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.

broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3–6mm;

valves sparsely pubescent;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6–8 per ovary;

style 3–6.5 mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 8, 16.