Flora of North America species comparison

to 2 dm × 1–3 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 25–40-leaved, 10–20 cm diam.;

blade light green, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, flat, usually channelled adaxially, 4–15 × 1–4 cm, 2.5–6 mm thick, 4–6 times wider than thick, base 10–40 mm wide, surfaces mostly 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 2–3-branched, obpyramidal, (2–3 × 0.5–2 dm);

branches 1–2 times bifurcate (sometimes with some scattered proximally);

cincinni 7–20-flowered, somewhat circinate, 4–12 cm;

floral shoots 2–5 dm × 3–8 mm;

leaves 20–45, spreading to slightly ascending, triangular-ovate, 1–4 × 1–1.5 cm.

1–3 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 ascending near base and outcurved, connate 1–2 mm, bright yellow, elliptic or narrowly ovate, 8–10.5 × 3–4 mm, apex acute, corolla 5–6 mm diam. at base and 8–15 mm at apex;

pistils suberect, 7–10 mm;

styles 2.5–4 mm.

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

widespreading, with adaxial margins nearly horizontal.

ascending, slightly gibbous adaxially, beaks ascending to spreading.

= 68.