Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 10–20 cm, stipitate-glandular.

erect, 7–18 cm, glabrous.

basal leaves ± deciduous;

cauline leaves (2–)3–5 of equal size distally;

basal blades ascending to ± spreading, narrowly linear, 1.5–3.5 cm × 1–1.5 mm, ± flexuous, ± succulent, apex green, blunt or acute to apiculate, glabrous, not glaucous.

basal leaves persistent;

cauline leaves in 5 pairs, not reduced (stems leafy);

basal blades spreading, needlelike, 1.5–2 cm × 0.5–1 mm, rigid, not fleshy, apex spinose, glabrous, glaucous.

7–40+-flowered, ± open cymes.

5–13-flowered, open cymes.

3–20 mm, stipitate-glandular.

4–12 mm, glabrous to stipitate-glandular distally.

sepals 1–3-veined, lateral pair obscure, ovate, 3–3.8 mm, 4–4.5 mm in fruit, margins broad, apex obtuse to rounded or barely acute, stipitate-glandular;

petals white, narrowly spatulate, 6.6–7.5 mm, 2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded or emarginate;

nectaries as lateral and abaxial rounding of base of filaments opposite sepals, 0.3 mm.

sepals 1-veined, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 4.5–5 mm, 6.5–7.5 mm in fruit, margins narrow, apex acuminate to spinose, glabrous to stipitate-glandular distally;

petals yellowish white, narrowly spatulate, 7.5–8.5 mm, 1.5–1.7 times as long as sepals, apex emarginate;

nectaries as lateral and abaxial rounding of base of filaments opposite sepals, 0.3–0.4 mm.

4.5–5.5 mm, glabrous.

ca. 6 mm, glabrous.

black to brown, oblong to pyriform, 1.8–2.4 mm, smooth to tuberculate.

color not known, orbicular, ca. 1 mm, surface not known (mature seeds not observed).