OregonFlora species comparison

ascending; much branched, bearing dense rosettes.

erect or decumbent, 10–42 cm;

stem leaves alternate, oblanceolate, elliptic, oblong or suborbicular; broadest near or above middle, auriculate or not, decurrent or not, different from rosette leaves.

rosette leaves obovate, spatulate or oblanceolate, subterete to somewhat flattened, 10–50 × (4.5)6–33 mm, green, bases not spurred, not scarious;

tips truncate to rounded or obtuse, notched or not;

surfaces glaucous or not, not pruinose.

panicle-like cymes with 12–80 flowers, with 3+ branches;

branches 2-forked;

bracts similar to stem leaves but smaller.

5-parted;

calyx lobes erect, closely appressed to corolla tube; ovate or lanceolate; (2)2.6–5.1 mm, pale green;

tips acute or subacute;

petals erect or spreading 15–30° from flower axis, 4–11 mm, pink with broad white margins, sometimes almost entirely white; aging red;

tips acuminate, sometimes attenuate;

anthers dark rose red, rarely dark red-orange; aging black.

erect, brown.