Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

gradually ramified distally.

spreading or suberect, 8–20 cm.

procumbent, 3–6 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, gradually narrowed to broad petiole, blade narrowly linear to linear-oblanceolate, flattened or channeled adaxially, 2.5–6 cm, margins entire, apex acute;

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.

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

bracts 2, opposite, plus 1 subtending each successive flower if 2 or more flowers present, lanceolate, 5 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.

pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit, 2.5–4 cm diam.;

sepals 2, broadly obovate, 4–10 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, apex rounded to truncate;

petals 5–10, white to very pale pink, often with reddish glands at apex, narrowly elliptic-oblong, 11–20 mm;

stamens 7–9;

stigmas 5–6;

pedicel 10–25 mm.

4–5 mm.

8 mm.

1–2, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

20–50, 1.5 mm, dullish, minutely granular.

= 14.

= ca. 22.