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 glabrous, entire, fleshy and nearly terete, 3-10 mm. long, spatulate to oblanceolate, narrowed to a broad base;

cauline leaves usually none, occasionally 1-3, reduced.

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.

Flowers terminal and single, or 2-4 in a loose inflorescence;

calyx saucer-shaped, glabrous, often purplish-tinged, the 5 oval, spreading lobes 2-3 mm. long;

petals 5, white, up to twice as long as the calyx lobes, broadly oblanceolate, narrowed to the base;

stamens 10, the filaments somewhat petaloid.

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

Ovary about 1/4 inferior at flowering; capsule ovoid, 8-12 mm. long, purplish-mottled;

carpels sometimes 3 or more.