Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

1–5 from base, prostrate to slightly decumbent, (arising laterally, also erect or ascending from tuft of basal leaves, unbranched, purple-green), 0.08–0.3 dm.

(petiole slender);

blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute).

(petiole slightly winged);

blade oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic, (mostly flat, sometimes somewhat folded), 0.6–2.7 cm, (base tapering to petiole), margins entire, (apex rounded to rounded-acute).

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire.

(3–7, shortly petiolate or sessile);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 0.3–0.5 cm, margins entire.

subcorymbose.

crowded, (ca. 3–7 fruits).

sepals oblong, 8–10 mm;

petals spatulate, 12–14 mm.

sepals (greenish yellow), linear-triangular, 3.7–5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 4.5–9 mm.

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm.

(ascending, straight), 1.8–3.4 mm.

didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent;

replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate;

ovules 8–10 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

(shortly stipitate, purple or greenish purple in age), slightly didymous, ovoid to obpyriform, 3–5 mm (wider than long, base rounded-obtuse, apex rounded, flattened, or slightly emarginate);

valves (inflated, slightly wider than replum), pubescent, trichomes scattered;

replum obovate to orbicular-obdeltate, apex rounded, obtuse, or truncate;

septum complete or medially small-perforate;

ovules 4–6(–8) per ovary;

style 2–3.6 mm.

flattened, (2–3 mm).

relatively plump, (ovate to suborbicular, usually rounded on one side, ± flat or concave on the other, not mucilaginous when wetted).

= 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70.