OregonFlora species comparison

decumbent and ascending, branched, sometimes papillose, bearing terminal rosettes and above-ground shoots.

erect; simple or branched, not forming rosettes in axils of leaves, 3–18 cm;

stem leaves not easily detached, alternate, elliptic-lanceolate; broadest below middle, bases with short spur, not producing leafy bulbils in axils.

rosette leaves spreading to erect or ascending, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate; narrow and often rounded in cross section, 4.2–9 × 1.5–2.5 mm; dull gray-green; bluish green, green, or dark reddish, bases with very short spurs;

tips obtuse or obtusely apiculate;

surfaces papillose, dried leaves not keeled.

cymes with 5–25 flowers, with (1)3(6) forked branches;

bracts similar to leaves.

5-parted;

sepals ovate or lanceolate, 2–4 × 1–2 mm, pale green to yellow-green;

tips rounded to blunt or rarely acute, often papillose;

petals widely spreading from erect base; distinct, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, keeled, 6–9 mm, yellow;

tips acute to acuminate with minute apiculus;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow, sometimes with red.

erect, fused at base, not glandular.

=16, 32, 48.