Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, erect, (usually unbranched), to 4.5 dm.

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 dm.

blade suborbicular to elliptic, 2–9.5(–11.5) cm, margins entire, sinuate, coarsely dentate, or almost lyrate-pinnatifid.

blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

similar to basal, blade narrowly linear or, sometimes, orbicular.

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).

loose (lax).

(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).

sepals elliptic or ovate, (2–)3.5–7.5 mm, (cucullate);

petals 6–11 mm.

sepals (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3–6(–7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3–1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–10(–12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(recurved, straight, curved, or sigmoid), 6–20 mm.

(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4–8(–12) mm.

obovoid to subglobose, not inflated (not angustiseptate), 3–6 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes glabrous inside, trichomes sessile or stalked;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style (1.6–)3–6 mm.

broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3–6mm;

valves sparsely pubescent;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6–8 per ovary;

style 3–6.5 mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 10, 30.