Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or outer decumbent, (often several-branched, branches slender and flexuous), to 8 dm.

few to several from base, prostrate, (arising proximal to a terminal cluster of erect leaves, usually unbranched, slender), 0.5–1(–1.5) dm.

blade pinnatisect to repand, 3–9(–14) cm, margins entire.

(petiole slender);

blade elliptic to rhombic, 1.5–4(–5) cm, (base gradually tapering to petiole), margins usually entire, rarely dentate.

(sometimes secund, proximal usually petiolate, distal sessile);

blade elliptic, 1–6 cm, (distal with cuneate base), margins entire or deeply dentate.

blade narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, margins entire.

dense.

(relatively short), rather loose.

sepals elliptic to oblong, 3–5.5 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes drying slightly purplish), suborbicular or broadly ovate, 4.5–7(–9) mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

sepals ± elliptic, 4–6 mm;

petals ovate, 6–8 mm, (claw slightly expanded at base).

(horizontal or recurved and ascending at tip, sometimes loosely sigmoid), (5–)10–20 mm.

(usually secund, recurved), 5–8 mm.

globose or broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm, (smooth);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–3(–4) mm.

(pendent), globose, subglobose, or slightly obcompressed, slightly or not inflated, 3–6 mm, (rigid, apex usually beaked);

valves pubescent throughout;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm, (pubescent).

flattened.

slightly flattened, (suborbicular).

= 12.