Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, branched, 5–45 cm, hairy, glandular at least distally, rarely eglandular; small axillary tufts of leaves absent.

usually erect, simple or several-branched, from branched caudex, rarely bushy, 6–40 cm, glandular-pilose, hairs in mid-stem region equaling or longer than stem diam.; small axillary tufts of leaves absent Leaves sessile;

blade 7–25 × 1–6 mm;

basal rosette absent or poorly developed and withering when young;

proximal with blade oblanceolate to spatulate;

distal with blade linear-lanceolate or lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, apex usually acute, rarely obtuse, glandular-pilose.

not marcescent, ± sessile;

blade 5–20(–30) × 2–8(–15) mm, apex apiculate, covered with spreading, white, long hairs;

basal with blade oblanceolate or obovate, narrowed proximally, sometimes spatulate;

cauline with blade broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate.

3–50-flowered, aggregated into dense, cymose clusters or in more-open dichasia;

bracts: proximal herbaceous, distal lanceolate, apex acute, with long, mainly eglandular hairs.

diffuse, elongate, usually with single dichotomy at or below mid stem, 3–18-flowered cymes, glandular-pubescent, flowers widely and racemosely spaced in axils of paired bracts along each branch;

bracts herbaceous, lanceolate, glandular-pubescent.

erect to spreading, often arcuate distally, 0.1–5 mm, shorter than capsule, glandular-pubescent.

sharply curved just below capsule, 2–10(–15) mm, shorter than to 2 times as long as capsule, with dense, patent, glandular pubescence.

sepals green, rarely dark-red tipped, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, margins narrow, apex very acute, usually with glandular hairs as well as long white hairs usually extending beyond apex;

petals oblanceolate, 3–5 mm, rarely absent, usually shorter than sepals, apex deeply 2-fid;

stamens 10;

styles 5.

sepals lanceolate, 3–5 mm, apex acute, glandular-hispid, hairs not extending beyond sepal tips, inner sepals with broad margins, outer sepals with very narrow margins;

petals oblanceolate, 2–3 mm, shorter than sepals, apex 2-fid ca. 1/4 of length;

stamens 5;

styles 5.

narrowly cylindric, curved, 7–10 mm;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

narrowly cylindric, curved, 7–8.5 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

pale brown, 0.5–0.6 mm, finely tuberculate;

testa inflated or not.

light brown, 0.4–0.7 mm diam., tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

= 72.