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.

several from base, usually prostrate, rarely decumbent, (unbranched, often purplish, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 dm.

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

blade deltate, hastate, or, less often, rhombic to elliptic, 1–5 cm, margins entire (often partially involute).

(remote, proximal shortly petiolate);

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

(proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

elongated.

loose, elongated.

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

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

sepals (often purplish), oblong, lanceolate, or ovate, 4–6 mm, (median pair thickened apically);

petals spatulate or cuneate, 5–8(–9) mm, (margins undulate).

(recurved), 7–10 mm.

(ascending, slightly sigmoid to straight), 5–10 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.

ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 3–5(–6) mm, (base often gibbous);

valves pubescent, trichomes loose, furcate near their bases and spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style 1.5–4 mm.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

flattened.