Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or outer usually decumbent toward base, (from below a terminal tuft of mostly erect leaves, unbranched), 1–2 dm.

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

blade ovate to elliptic, 2–4 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (surfaces densely pubescent with trichome layers).

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

(remote, proximal shortly petiolate);

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, similar to basal, (base often cuneate), margins entire.

congested, (elongated in fruit).

elongated.

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (erect), lingulate, 8–10 mm, (claw barely differentiated from blade).

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

(recurved), 7–10 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.

(usually pendent, sessile), subglobose, slightly flattened (angustiseptate), 4–5 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes somewhat spreading;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm.

flattened.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

= 8, 16.