Flora of North America species comparison

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

rosettes 1–7, not in clumps, 10–25(–30)-leaved, 3–25 cm diam.;

blade green, oblong-lanceolate, 4–30 × 0.5–4 cm, 1.5–6 mm thick, base 1–3 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces not farinose, sometimes glaucous.

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.

cyme mostly 2–3-branched, obpyramidal;

branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or 1-times bifurcate, (5–16 cm diam.);

cincinni 2–3, 2–20-flowered, circinate, 2–15(–25) cm;

floral shoots 15–90(–120) × 0.3–1.2 cm;

leaves 18–40, spreading to ascending, triangular-lanceolate to -ovate, 10–30(–50) × 3–18 mm, apex acute, in age straight and erect to spreading.

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.

erect, not bent in fruit, 2–6(–12) mm.

calyx 4–7 × 5–8 mm;

petals connate 1–2 mm, bright yellow or usually red or red-flushed or -marked abaxially, greenish to orange-yellow adaxially, 10–16 × 2.5–5 mm, apex acute, tips slightly outcurved;

pistils connivent, erect.

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.

follicles erect.

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

widespreading, with adaxial margins nearly horizontal.

= 68.