Flora of North America species comparison

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

2 or more from each rosette, spreading to decumbent, 1.5–18 cm.

basal, in loose rosettes;

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

basal and cauline;

basal withering in fruit, in single, prostrate rosette, blade spatulate, 1–5 cm;

cauline leaf blades spatulate, 1–2(–4) cm.

racemose, 1–5(–8)-flowered.

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.

subsessile;

sepals ovate, unequal, 1–2 mm, herbaceous, margins scarious;

petals (2–)3, pink to reddish, 1–3 mm;

stamens 1(–3), anther yellow;

style absent;

stigmas 2.

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

valves 3–4, splitting from base toward apex.

ovoid to cylindric, somewhat falcate, 4–8 mm;

valves 2.

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

4–10, black, orbicular, 0.3–0.7 mm, shiny.

-escences racemose or paniculate cymes, scorpioid when immature, loose.

= 46, 92.

= 44.