Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

gradually ramified distally.

ascending to suberect, 10–12(–30) cm.

erect, 0.5–5 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 or abruptly or gradually narrowed into broad petiole, blade spatulate to orbiculate, flattened, 1–6.5(–9) cm, margins entire, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse;

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 on peduncles;

bracts 2, ovate to oblong, 5–12 mm, margins glandular-toothed, 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, not disarticulate in fruit;

sepals 2, decussate with bracts, resembling 4-merous calyx, ovate-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–12 mm, herbaceous, margins irregularly toothed, sometimes glandular, apex acute;

petals (5–)6–9(–12), white, obovate to oblanceolate, 10–15 mm;

stamens 8–15(–26);

stigmas 3–5.

3–5 mm.

8 mm.

4–15, 1.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

12–15, 2 mm, minutely tuberculate.