Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

gradually ramified distally.

ascending to suberect, 10–12(–30) cm.

erect, 0.5–3 cm.

basal leaves evergreen, sessile or abruptly or gradually narrowed to broad petiole, blade oblanceolate, obovate, spatulate, or rarely ± linear or ± orbiculate, ± flattened, 3–14 cm, margins entire, crisped, or toothed, apex truncate, emarginate, retuse, or rounded;

cauline leaves alternate, intergrading with bracts, blade oblong to ovate, 5–10 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute to occasionally obtuse.

basal leaves withering at or soon after anthesis, sessile, blade linear to slightly clavate, terete, 0.8–2 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse;

cauline leaves absent.

dense, paniculate to subumbellate cymes, 10–50-flowered;

bracts alternate or opposite proximally, 2 at each flowering node distally, obovate to lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute.

with flowers borne singly;

bracts 2–4, proximal in 1 pair, ovate to lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins entire, apex acute.

pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit;

sepals 2, suborbiculate to broadly ovate, 4–6 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, apex obtuse to truncate;

petals 7–10, usually pink-purple with pale and darker stripes, less often white, cream with pink-orange stripes, ± orange, or yellow, oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, (8–)12–20 mm;

stamens 5–12;

stigmas 2–4;

pedicel 2–5 mm.

sessile to subsessile, disarticulate in fruit;

sepals 2, broadly obovate to broadly ovate, 7–8 mm, scarious at anthesis, margins entire, apex rounded or sometimes emarginate;

petals 5–8, pale rose-pink, oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 13–18 mm, apex obtuse;

stamens 1–15;

stigmas 4.

3–5 mm.

4–15, 1.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

11–15, 2.8–3.5 mm.