Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

gradually ramified distally.

spreading or suberect, 8–20 cm.

erect, 0.5–3 cm.

basal leaves evergreen, sessile, blade linear, ± terete, 1.5–6 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse;

cauline leaves alternate, intergrading with bracts, blade narrowly lanceolate, 5 mm, margins entire, apex acute.

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.

paniculate cymes, 50–70(–100)-flowered;

bracts several, alternate proximally, 2 at each flowering node distally, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 2–5 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, 1–4 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, apex truncate;

petals 5–8, magenta, lavender, or white with or without magenta veins, obovate, 5–7 mm;

stamens 4–8;

stigmas 2;

pedicel 3–15 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.

4–5 mm.

1–2, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

11–15, 2.8–3.5 mm.

= 14.