Flora of North America species comparison

to 2 dm × 1.5–3.5 cm, clumps to 5 dm diam.

3–50;

petiole 0.3–1.5 mm wide, to 1/3 as wide as blade;

blade green, oblanceolate or clavate-oblanceolate, 1–6 cm × 2–8 mm, 1–4 mm thick, base 1–4 mm wide, apex subacute to rounded, surfaces sometimes ± glaucous.

without resinous odor;

rosette 15–25-leaved, 5–10 cm diam.;

blade light green, linear, terete and widened above clasping base, 8–20(–40) × 0.3–0.9 cm, 4–9 mm thick, to 2 times wider than thick, base 15–30 mm wide, surfaces not farinose, not viscid, not oily.

cincinni 3–10-flowered, 1–6 cm;

floral shoots 3–12 cm × 0.5–2 mm;

leaves 8–25, ascending, blade triangular-ovate to -lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm × 3–10 mm, 2–4 mm thick, apex rounded to subacute or obtuse.

cyme 2–15-branched, flat-topped to mostly cylindric, 0.4–1 × 0.4–1 dm;

branches 1–2 times bifurcate;

cincinni 3–12-flowered, subcircinate, 4–11 cm, floral shoots 2–7 dm × 3–10 mm;

leaves 15–35, strongly ascending, triangular-lanceolate, (terete or somewhat flattened in basal 1/2), 2–5 × 0.3–1 cm.

1–2(–5) mm.

with musky, sweet odor;

petals connate to 1 mm, widely spreading from near middle, white, ± yellowish green at base, red-lineolate on keel, drying purplish, elliptic, 6–10[–12] × 2–3.5[–5] mm, apex acute, corolla 8–20 mm diam.;

pistils separate, ascending;

ovary 3–4.5 mm;

styles 1–1.5 mm.

petals spreading or slightly reflexed from near middle, connate 1–2 mm, white, elliptic-oblong, 7–10 × 2–3 mm, apex acute, corolla 15–20 mm diam.;

pistils erect, 6–8 mm;

styles 1.5–2 mm.

subglobose to oblong, 0.7–3.5 cm × 5–20 mm.

widespreading, with adaxial margins nearly horizontal.

ascending, with adaxial margins ca. 30–45º above horizontal.

= 34.