OregonFlora species comparison

extensively stoloniferous, with dense terminal rosettes.

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

erect; simple, 3–14 cm;

stem leaves alternate, spatulate-oblong or elliptic-oblong; widest at or below middle, different from rosette leaves.

erect, rarely branched, 6–10 cm;

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

rosette leaves spreading, usually nearly parallel to ground, usually forming flat rosettes, spatulate, narrowing to petioles, 7–19 × 4.5–10 mm, 5 × as wide as thick, green or pruinose and white, bases not spurred, not scarious, sometimes muricate or papillose near margins;

tips rounded or truncate;

surfaces usually 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 ~30 flowers, 3-branched;

branches forked;

bracts oblong-spatulate or linear.

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-parted;

sepals spreading to erect, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, oblong-ovate or obovate; ~2.5 × 1.5 mm, green to yellow-green;

tips acute or obtuse;

surface glaucous or pruinose;

petals strongly spreading above erect base, linear to oblanceolate, 4.5–9 mm, yellow;

tips acute;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow.

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.

erect until mature then spreading, fused basally, brown.

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

=16.