Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or outer usually decumbent toward base, (from below a terminal tuft of mostly erect leaves, unbranched), 1–2 dm.

few to several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, 0.5–4 dm.

blade ovate to elliptic, 2–4 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (surfaces densely pubescent with trichome layers).

(long-petiolate);

blade elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 2–6(–9) cm, margins entire.

(remote, proximal shortly petiolate);

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, similar to basal, (base often cuneate), margins entire.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 1–3 cm, (proximal broader), margins entire.

elongated.

dense, (relatively short).

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (erect), lingulate, 8–10 mm, (claw barely differentiated from blade).

sepals elliptic or narrowly oblong, 4–5.4 mm, (tapered to apex);

petals (white, base and claw yellow, conspicuously purple-veined), usually broadly obovate or rhombic, 6–10 mm, (± equal to blade, tapering to slender claw).

(recurved), 7–10 mm.

(erect to spreading, ascending, or (proximal) horizontal, straight to slightly curved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 6–12(–20) mm.

(usually pendent, sessile), subglobose, slightly flattened (angustiseptate), 4–5 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes somewhat spreading;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm.

(sessile or substipitate, often reddish magenta), usually ovoid to subglobose, inflated, 4–6(–7) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

septum perforate;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 1.5–4 mm.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

somewhat flattened.

= 12.