Flora of North America species comparison

suberect or decumbent to prostrate, branched distally, 1–3.2(–4.1) dm, (pilose to hirsute).

absent.

shortly petiolate or sessile;

blade oblanceolate to oblong, (lateral lobes oblong to ovate, often reaching midrib), 2.4–5.2 cm × 5–12 mm, base auriculate or not, margins sinuate to pinnatifid or (lateral lobes) entire or dentate, (surfaces pilose).

(rarely absent), usually petiolate, sometimes sessile;

blade (simple or compound), base auriculate or not, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed.

absent or simple.

elongated.

usually ebracteate (Selenia bracteate throughout), often elongated in fruit.

sepals (persistent), ascending, oblong, 2–3.5 × 0.8–1.5 mm, (pilose);

petals yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2.7–4.2 × 0.7–1.7 mm;

median filaments 2–3.5 mm;

anthers ovate, ca. 0.8 mm.

actinomorphic;

sepals erect to spreading or ascending, lateral pair seldom saccate basally;

petals white, yellow, pink, lilac, or purple, claw usually present, rarely absent, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

ascending, (subappressed to rachis), straight, (3–)4–10(–12) mm, (densely pilose).

silicles, straight, subglobose to oblong ellipsoid, (1.5–)2.5–5.5(–7) × (1–)1.7–2.8(–3.5) mm;

valves densely pilose;

ovules 24–40 per ovary;

style 0.7–3.2 mm, (pilose).

silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate, rarely angustiseptate;

ovules 4–300[–numerous] per ovary;

style distinct or obsolete (absent in Subularia);

stigma usually entire.

biseriate, yellowish brown, ovoid-globose, 0.7–0.9 mm, prominently colliculate.

biseriate or uniseriate;

cotyledons usually accumbent, sometimes incumbent.