Flora of North America species comparison

erect, sparingly branched proximally, slender, 15–35 cm, sparsely glandular-pilose; 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;

proximal blades broadly spatulate-petiolate, 8–55 × 3–16 mm, apex acute or obtuse, sometimes short-acuminate, softly pilose;

cauline few, sessile, blade linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 7–30 mm, apex acute, pilose.

very open and loose, 2–9(–25)-flowered cymes;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, pilose.

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.

straight, becoming sharply deflexed at base, slender, 5–20 mm, elongating in fruit, 1.5–4 times as long as sepals, glandular-pilose.

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, turning pale orange-brown in fruit, lanceolate to ovate, 3–6 mm, margins narrow, apex acute, with short, glandular pubescence;

petals oblanceolate, 5–8 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 5;

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.

cylindric, straight, 5–12 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, becoming outwardly coiled.

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

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

red-brown, 0.4–0.7 mm diam., tuberculate;

tubercles ± pointed;

testa not inflated.

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

testa not inflated.

= 36.