Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

napiform to shortly fusiform.

ascending to suberect, 10–12(–30) cm.

suberect, becoming horizontal or deflexed after anthesis, base subterranean, 5–12 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, gradually narrowed to broad petiole, blade narrowly linear to linear-oblanceolate, flattened, 4–15 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute;

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.

usually with flowers borne singly, rarely 2–3-flowered in racemose cymes;

bracts 2, opposite, linear-lanceolate, 6–18 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.

pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit, 0.5–2 cm diam.;

sepals 2, broadly ovate, 5–13 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins entire or with few shallow, nonglandular teeth, apex acute to subacute;

petals 5–10, white or rarely pinkish, elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–15(–20) mm;

stamens 6–15;

stigmas 3–6;

pedicel 10–40 mm.

3–5 mm.

5–10 mm.

4–15, 1.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

20–50, 1.3 mm, shiny, muricate.

= 56.