Flora of North America species comparison

2 or more from each rosette, spreading to ascending, 2–11 cm.

1 or more from each rosette, 10–20 cm, bracts scattered proximally, ovate-lanceolate, scarious.

basal and cauline;

basal in single, prostrate rosette;

blade spatulate, 1–3 cm.

basal, in loose rosettes;

blade elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, narrowing to broad petiole, 6–15 cm.

paniculate or racemose scorpioid cymes, becoming secund, open to dense.

racemose, 1–5(–8)-flowered.

subsessile;

sepals ovate, orbiculate, or reniform, unequal, 2–5 mm, margins scarious;

petals 3(–4), white or pinkish, 1.5–3 mm;

stamens 1–3, anther yellow;

style absent;

stigmas 2.

pedicellate;

sepals broadly ovate, 9–10 mm, scarious;

petals 7–9(–12), salmon-pink to yellowish, rarely white, 25–40 mm;

stamens 10–23, anther yellow;

style present;

stigmas 3;

pedicel 20–60 mm.

ovoid to cylindric, 3–7 mm;

valves 2.

ovoid, 7–10 mm, dehiscence circumscissile near base;

valves 3–4, splitting from base toward apex.

10–15, black, orbicular, 0.6–0.7 mm, shiny.

12–35, dark brownish red, suborbicular to reniform, 2 mm, not shiny, warty, strophiolate.

= 44.

= 46, 92.