Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, (usually unbranched), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm.

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

(petiole slender);

blade suborbicular to obovate or elliptic, 1–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually or abruptly to petiole), margins sinuate-dentate or entire.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire or remotely dentate.

congested, (elongated in fruit).

dense or loose.

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4.5–7 mm, (median pair cucullate);

petals spatulate, 7–9(–14) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(sigmoid or curved), 5–10(–15) 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.

(erect), ellipsoid to obovoid, compressed at apex and sometimes margins (strongly latiseptate), (5–)6–9 mm, (apex acute, often beaked);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes 4- or 5-rayed;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style (2–)3–6.5 mm, (often sparsely pubescent).

flattened.

inner surface flattened, outer convex.

= 8, 16.