Flora of North America species comparison

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

spreading or ascending, 7–25 cm.

basal, in loose rosettes;

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

cauline, not forming basal rosettes;

blade ovate to obovate or spatulate, flattened, 1–6 cm, glaucous.

racemose, 1–5(–8)-flowered.

paniculate, loose, usually 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-orbiculate, slightly unequal, 3–5 mm, herbaceous, glaucous;

petals disarticulate in fruit, usually 5, red-purple, 3–6 mm;

stamens usually 5, anther yellow;

style present;

stigmas 3;

pedicel 5–15 mm.

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

valves 3–4, splitting from base toward apex.

ovoid, usually longer than calyx at maturity, 5–8 mm;

valves 3.

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

20–40, dull gray, ellipsoid, 0.5–1 mm, white-hairy at 30x, strophiolate.

= 46, 92.