Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (usually unbranched, rarely branched distally), 1–3 dm.

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

(tufted);

blade broadly obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex rounded to obtuse).

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

blade oblanceolate to nearly oblong, similar to basal, (base cuneate), margins entire.

loose (lax).

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

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

petals 6–11 mm.

sepals (yellowish), elliptic to lanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

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

(recurved), 6–8(–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.

(usually pendent), elliptic to subglobose, usually slightly compressed (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, sometimes with scattered trichomes inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style ca. 3 mm.

flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 10, 30.