Flora of North America species comparison

gradually ramified distally.

gradually ramified distally.

procumbent to erect, 1–3 cm.

erect, 0.5–5 cm.

basal leaves withering at or soon after anthesis, sessile, blade linear to clavate, subterete or grooved adaxially, 0.5–5 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute;

cauline leaves absent.

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.

with flowers borne singly;

bracts 4–7(–8), whorled, subulate to linear-lanceolate, 4–10 mm, margins entire, apex acuminate.

with flowers borne singly on peduncles;

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

pedicellate, disarticulate in fruit;

sepals (4–)6–9, broadly elliptic to ovate, 10–25 mm, scarious after anthesis, margins entire to somewhat erose, apex obtuse to rounded;

petals 10–19, usually rose to pink, sometimes lavender, sometimes with paler or white centers, or wholly white, elliptic, oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate, 15–35 mm;

stamens 20–50;

stigmas 4–9;

pedicel (1–)3–15(–30) 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.

5–6 mm.

8 mm.

6–25, 2–2.5 mm, shiny, minutely papillate.

12–15, 2 mm, minutely tuberculate.

= 26, 28.