Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

gradually ramified distally.

spreading or suberect, 8–20 cm.

erect, 0.5–5 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 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.

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 on peduncles;

bracts 2, ovate to oblong, 5–12 mm, margins glandular-toothed, 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, 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.

4–5 mm.

8 mm.

1–2, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

12–15, 2 mm, minutely tuberculate.

= 14.