Flora of North America species comparison

1 or more from each rosette, 10–20 cm, bracts scattered proximally, ovate-lanceolate, scarious.

spreading to erect, 3–18 cm.

basal, in loose rosettes;

blade elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, narrowing to broad petiole, 6–15 cm.

cauline, not forming basal rosette;

blade linear to spatulate, ± terete, 1.5–6 cm, not glaucous.

racemose, 1–5(–8)-flowered.

paniculate with umbel-like clusters, dense, usually not exceeding leaves.

pedicellate;

sepals broadly ovate, 9–10 mm, scarious;

petals 7–9(–12), salmon-pink to yellowish, rarely white, 25–40 mm;

stamens 10–23, anther yellow;

style present;

stigmas 3;

pedicel 20–60 mm.

pedicellate;

sepals ovate, slightly unequal, 2–5 mm, herbaceous, margins white-scarious;

petals disarticulate in fruit, 3–5, white, 2–5 mm;

stamens 5–10, anther yellow;

style present;

stigmas 3;

pedicel 1–3 mm.

ovoid, 7–10 mm, dehiscence circumscissile near base;

valves 3–4, splitting from base toward apex.

ovoid, 1–4 mm;

valves 3.

12–35, dark brownish red, suborbicular to reniform, 2 mm, not shiny, warty, strophiolate.

6–15, black, ovoid, 1–2 mm, smooth, shiny, reticulate at 30x, not white-hairy.

= 46, 92.