Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, 1.5–7(–10.5) dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes short-stalked, 2–8-rayed, 0.1–0.2 mm, sparsely pubescent distally.

blade oblanceolate, 2–7 mm wide, margins entire or shallowly dentate, sometimes ciliate at petiole base, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 5–10-rayed, 0.05–0.2 mm.

15–40, concealing stem proximally;

blade auricles 0.5–2.5 mm or, rarely, absent, surfaces of distalmost leaves pubescent.

15–80(–140)-flowered, usually unbranched.

pendent at anthesis;

sepals pubescent;

petals white to lavender, 4–8 × 0.8–2.2 mm, glabrous;

pollen ellipsoid.

reflexed, abruptly recurved at base, otherwise usually straight, 7–12(–18) mm, pubescent, trichomes appressed, branched.

strongly reflexed, usually appressed to rachis, sometimes somewhat secund, straight, edges parallel, 3.5–9 cm × 0.9–1.8 mm;

valves glabrous or sparsely pubescent throughout;

ovules 60–116 per ovary;

style 0.5–2 mm.

uniseriate, 1–1.4 × 0.9–1.2 mm;

wing continuous, to 0.1 mm wide.

= 14.