UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves all basal, the leaves wedge-shaped to fan-shaped, 10-25 mm. long and nearly as broad, coarsely dentate with 7-9 teeth, with slender petioles of similar length, glabrous or with a few soft, brown hairs.

Leaves all basal, the blades 2-5 cm. long, narrowly rhombic to rhombic-ovate, narrowed gradually to broad petioles rarely as long, with prominent marginal hairs and rusty-woolly on the lower surface.

Inflorescence, calyx and fruits often bright red; inflorescence a cyme with up to 15 flowers, the peduncles slender, often with linear, entire bracts;

calyx lobed almost to the base, the 5 lobes oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, sharply reflexed;

petals 5, white, aging to pink, 2.5-4 mm. long, the blade oblong-oval, rounded to a short, broad claw;

stamens 10, equaling the petals, the filaments white, club-shaped;

carpels often 3-5, fused only 0.5-1 mm., the ovary mostly superior, the carpels tapered to styles less than 1 mm. long.

Inflorescence thyrsoid, (15-)20+-flowered, open to ± congested, conic (usually branched) subtended by a leafy, rusty-woolly bract;

calyx broadly conic, the 5 lobes oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long, reflexed;

petals 5, white, obovate, 1.5-3 mm. long, at least half as broad as long;

stamens 10, short, awl-shaped.

Follicle 7-12 mm. long exclusive of the slender, divergent, stylar beaks.

Ovary about inferior in fruit; mature follicles 2, 3.5-5 mm. long, often reddish or purplish.