Flora of North America species comparison

erect, sparingly branched proximally, slender, 15–35 cm, sparsely glandular-pilose; small axillary tufts of leaves absent.

erect, simple or several from branched caudex, 15–30 cm, densely viscid-glandular; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent.

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.

not marcescent, sessile;

blade broadly linear to linear lanceolate to oblong, 12–30(–50) × 3–10(–15) mm, apex usually acute, densely viscid-glandular.

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

bracts narrowly lanceolate, pilose.

dense, 3–30-flowered cymes;

bracts foliaceous, 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.

erect, 2–10 mm, shorter than sepals, with dense, spreading, 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, 6–11 mm, margins narrow, apex acute, pubescence dense, stout, shorter than sepal tips, viscid-glandular;

petals oblanceolate, 8–10 mm, ca. equaling sepals, apex shortly 2-fid;

stamens 5;

styles 5.

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

teeth 10, becoming outwardly coiled.

narrowly conic, straight, 10–15 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.

chestnut brown, ca. 1.3 mm, tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

= 36.

= 38.