Flora of North America species comparison

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

to 2 dm × 1–2.5 cm, clumps to 3 dm diam.

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.

without resinous odor;

rosette 20–40-leaved, 7–25 cm diam.;

blade green, appearing whitish, linear, terete or subterete, base flattened, 6–15(–23) × 0.6–1.2 cm, 5–8 mm thick, 1–1.5 times wider than thick, base 10–20 mm wide, surfaces farinose, not viscid, not oily.

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.

cyme 3–5-branched, rounded, (1.5–3 × 0.4–1 dm);

branches usually 1–2 times bifurcate;

cincinni 2–8-flowered, scarcely circinate, 2–4 cm;

floral shoots 1–3 dm × 2–4 mm;

leaves 5–15, erect, lanceolate, 1–4 × 0.5–1.2 cm.

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

2–5 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.

petals spreading from middle, connate 0.5–2 mm, white or pinkish, narrowly ovate, 5–10 × 2–3 mm, apex acute, corolla 12–20 mm diam.;

pistils erect, 6–9 mm;

styles 2–3.5 mm.

follicles erect.

widely spreading, with adaxial margins 10–45º above horizontal.

= 68.

= 34.