Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

(2–5 per stem);

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

(remote, proximal shortly petiolate);

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

loose, (3–6-flowered).

elongated.

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

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

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

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

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

(recurved), 7–10 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).

(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).