OregonFlora species comparison

horizontal; simple.

decumbent, becoming erect or ascending, branched; without rosettes.

erect; simple; (5)11–18 cm;

stem leaves alternate, not producing leafy bulbils in axils; ovate or elliptic; widest below middle, bases not spurred.

erect, rarely branched, 6–10 cm;

stem leaves suborbicular to obovate or oblong, dried stems 1.5–2 mm thick.

rosette leaves deciduous, spreading, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–16 × 1.4–3.2 mm, green or greenish white, bases not spurred;

tips blunt;

surfaces papillose, not glaucous.

opposite, rarely alternate, 2-ranked, suborbicular to obovate or oblong, subterete; ± globular, 4–9 × 4–6 mm, green or red, bases slightly clasping;

tips rounded;

surfaces not glaucous; shiny.

cymes with 5–60 flowers, 3–6-branched;

branches often strongly recurved; each 1–3 times dichotomously forked;

bracts like stem leaves but smaller.

cymes with 5–25 flowers, 2–3-branched;

branches recurved to erect;

bracts similar to other leaves or elliptic to broadly lanceolate, 2–5 mm.

(5)6(7)-parted;

sepals ovate, 1.5–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, green;

tips acute;

petals spreading, separate nearly to base, lanceolate to oblong, 4–6 mm, yellow;

keel green or dark red;

tips subobtuse to acute;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow;

ovaries glandular-pustulose.

5(7)-parted;

sepals ovate, 2–3 × 1.5–2 mm, green;

tips obtuse;

petals erect basally, widely spreading from about middle, usually distinct; narrow; ~5 mm, yellow;

tips acute or obtuse and with an apiculus;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow.

widely spreading when mature, fused near base, glandular-pustulose.

widely spreading, fused at base, red or reddish brown to straw-colored.

=16.

=16.