Flora of North America species comparison

few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4–1(–1.2) dm.

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

blade (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5–2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded).

(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 spatulate, margins entire.

(2–5 per stem);

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

compact, subumbellate.

loose, (3–6-flowered).

sepals (pale yellow), 4–5 mm;

petals lingulate, 6–7 mm.

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

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

(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

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

ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy);

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (glabrous).

(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).

plump.

flattened.