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 erect, 1.5–13 cm.

basal, in loose rosettes;

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

basal and cauline;

basal in single, prostrate rosette;

blade spatulate, 0.5–6 cm.

racemose, 1–5(–8)-flowered.

racemose or paniculate scorpioid cymes, ± dense.

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 orbiculate to reniform, unequal, 4–6 mm, margins scarious;

petals disarticulate in fruit, 4, pink to rose or white, 2–3 mm;

stamens 1–3, anther yellow;

style absent;

stigmas 2;

pedicel 1–3 mm.

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

valves 3–4, splitting from base toward apex.

ovoid, 3–4 mm;

valves 2.

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

5–14, black, orbicular, 0.5–0.6 mm, shiny.

= 46, 92.

= 44.