Flora of North America species comparison

few from base, decumbent, (arising laterally proximal to current season’s leaves), 0.3–0.8 dm.

few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm.

(petiole slender);

blade broadly obovate, or deltate to ovate or narrower, 1.5–3.5 cm, (base abruptly to gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire or obscurely few-toothed, (apex usually obtuse, nearly acute in narrower leaves).

(tufted, erect);

blade linear to very narrowly spatulate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire (involute).

(2–5 per stem);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire, (apex acute).

similar to basal.

loose, (3–6-flowered).

relatively dense.

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

petals (erect), spatulate, 10–12(–15) mm.

sepals (greenish yellow), elliptic, 3.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm, (not clawed).

(widely spreading to ascending, slightly curved or straight), 7–11 mm.

(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 2–10 mm.

(usually purplish in age), didymous, irregular and somewhat angular, not highly inflated, 4–11 × 10–13 mm, (coriaceous, papery, shallowly grooved distally and on sides, tapered and narrowed toward replum, base obtuse to truncate, apex with broad sinus to nearly truncate);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, not silvery;

replum elliptic to obovate, as wide as or wider than fruit, base rounded, margins sparsely pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded (with funicles);

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm, (glabrous).

(erect), ovoid (or longer than broad), usually inflated, 4–5 mm, (apex acute, slightly flattened);

valves pubescent, trichomes appressed;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–4 mm.

flattened.

flattened, (mucilaginous).

= 10, 20.