Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

cormlike, globose.

ascending to suberect, 10–12(–30) cm.

lax to erect, 3–11 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 before anthesis, ± sessile, blade narrowly linear to filiform, subcylindric, 1–6 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute;

cauline leaves 2–3(–5), paired or whorled, blade similar to basal leaves, 10–50 mm.

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 subumbellate to paniculate cymes, (1–)3–25-flowered;

bracts 2 per flower, ovate to lanceolate, 1–5 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute.

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;

sepals 2, ovate, 2–4 mm, herbaceous, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse;

petals 5–9, white or pinkish with darker veins, elliptic-obovate to elliptic-ovate, 4–7 mm;

stamens (3–)4(–5);

stigmas 3–5;

pedicel 5–15(–25) mm.

3–5 mm.

3–4 mm.

4–15, 1.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

8–25, 1 mm, shiny, shallowly tuberculate.