OregonFlora species comparison

ascending; much branched, bearing dense rosettes.

decumbent, branched, with terminal 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.

erect, branched, 10–43 cm;

stem leaves alternate, linear, with basal scarious spurs and producing offset rosettes in their axils; bulbils present.

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.

rosette leaves persistent, spreading to erect, narrowly oblanceolate; narrow and often rounded in cross section, 4.3–13.8 × 1.4–2.7 mm, green to red, bases with small spur;

margins sometimes papillose-ciliate; papillae 0.1–0.15 mm;

tips acuminate or attenuate;

surfaces not glaucous, dried leaves strongly keeled.

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

branches 2-forked;

bracts similar to stem leaves but smaller.

solitary flowers or small cymes with 9–15(25) flowers, mostly 3-branched;

primary branches sometimes dichotomously forked;

bracts like other 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.

(3)5(8)-parted;

sepals distinct, lanceolate to ovate, 2–3.7 × 0.8–1.7 mm, yellow, yellow-green; greenish, white, or cream-colored;

tips acute or acuminate;

petals spreading horizontally; distinct, lanceolate to elliptic; widest at or below middle, 5.4–11 mm, yellow or white with green or brown;

keel white;

tips obtuse to long-acuminate, sometimes apiculate;

filaments yellow or white;

anthers yellow;

ovaries glandular-pustulose.

erect, brown.

widely spreading when mature, fused near base, light green to brown, papillose, rarely glandular-pustulose.

=64.