Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to erect or ascending (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm.

several from base, usually decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally, unbranched, coarse), 1–2 dm.

(outer ones spreading, inner erect or ascending);

blade ovate, often broadly so, 4–7 cm, margins repand to lyrate-lobed.

blade pandurate or obovate, 3–6 cm, margins usually deeply and broadly incised, rarely subentire, (apex obtuse).

similar to basal, blade oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, reduced in size, (base gibbous).

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, (3–6 mm wide), margins entire, (apex often somewhat acute).

loose, (elongated).

congested, (elongated in fruit).

sepals lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5.8–7.2 mm;

petals (erect, sometime purplish or drying purple), narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, 7–10 mm, (not or weakly clawed).

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, sigmoid to nearly straight), 10–17 mm.

(usually curving upward, sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

didymous, globose or subglobose, inflated, 10–13 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes ascending, appearing fuzzy;

replum oblong to oblanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style (4–)5–7 mm.

didymous, irregular in shape, somewhat angular, inflated, 5–7 × 6–8 mm, (papery, often rigid, base obtuse or truncate, apical sinus broad, open and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes spreading, loose;

replum oblong, often constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

plump, (suborbicular).

flattened.

= 8, 16.