Flora of North America species comparison

simple or apically branched, cespitose, 0.1–5 × 1–3 cm, axillary branches absent.

rosettes 1–2, not in clumps, 10–25-leaved, 3–12 cm diam.;

blade pale green, oblong-lanceolate, tapering from base or slightly wider near middle, 3–15 × 0.5–2.5 cm, 1.5–6 mm thick, base 0.5–2.5 cm wide, apex narrowly acute, surfaces not farinose, glaucous at least when young.

cyme (red), 2–3-branched, obpyramidal;

branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or 1 times bifurcate, (5–20 cm wide);

cincinni 2–3, 2–20-flowered, circinate, 1–18 cm;

floral shoots 5–40 × 0.2–0.9 cm;

leaves 5–20, ascending, triangular-lanceolate, 5–70 × 3–10 mm, apex acute.

erect, not bent in fruit, 5–20 mm.

calyx 4–8 × 4.5–7 mm;

petals connate 1–4 mm, bright to greenish yellow or red-marked, 8–20 × 9–20 mm, apex acute, tips often outcurved;

pistils connivent, erect.

follicles erect.