Flora of North America species comparison

5–40 cm.

10–30 cm.

basal leaves petiolate, 3–20 cm, blade linear, lanceolate, or deltate, 2–7 × 1–5 cm;

cauline leaves sessile, distinct, blade lanceolate to ovate, 1–5 cm.

basal leaves sometimes absent, petiolate, blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–8 × 0.2–1.3 cm, apex acute;

cauline leaves sessile, blade linear or linear-lanceolate, 2–10 cm, distinctly tapered.

multibracteate;

bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm.

multibracteate;

proximalmost bracts leaflike, inserted proximal to pedicels of proximalmost cluster of flowers, distal bracts reduced to membranous scales, rarely with 1 bract.

8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm;

petals white, candy-striped, or pink, 8–14 mm;

ovules 3.

8–14 mm diam.;

sepals 3–5 mm;

petals white with yellow spots at base, creamy white, or rich yellow to yellow-orange, 8–10 mm;

ovules 6.

(1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.

1–2 mm diam., shiny and smooth to minutely tuberculate;

elaiosome 1 mm or less.

= 12, 24, 36.

= 16.