Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (slender), 0.6–1.5 dm.

simple from base, prostrate, (arising lateral to rosette), 0.1–0.5 dm.

blades obovate to deltate, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire or outer one with 1 or 2 broad teeth.

blade suborbicular, (1–)2.5(–3) cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat), (surfaces densely silvery pubescent, trichomes in multiple layers, appressed).

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.6–1.5 cm, margins entire.

(2–4);

blade oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm, (base cuneate), margins entire, (apex acute).

loose.

condensed.

sepals (green-yellow, often tinged with purple), elliptic, 3–4.6 mm;

petals oblanceolate, 6–8 mm (claw expanded).

sepals (erect, purplish to greenish), linear-oblong or boat-shaped, 5.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair more saccate than median);

petals (white), spatulate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(sigmoid), 5–9 mm.

(divaricate-ascending, nearly straight), 6–10 mm.

(depressed), broadly obovate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (apex slightly bilobed to nearly truncate);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes strongly ascending, spreading, long, (appearing fuzzy), pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–4 mm, (pubescent or glabrous).

strongly didymous, irregular in shape and size, (base slightly cordate, apex with a deep closed sinus), strongly to somewhat inflated, 6–8 × 6–8 mm (± bladderlike, papery);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent;

replum elliptic to obovate, not constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (sparsely pubescent or glabrous).

flattened.

plump.