Flora of North America species comparison

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

1 from each rosette, ascending to erect, to 60 cm.

basal, in loose rosettes;

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

basal in 2–many prostrate rosettes, blade spatulate, (0.5–)2–7(–15) cm;

cauline leaves usually absent.

racemose, 1–5(–8)-flowered.

umbellate or subumbellate, dense, globose, 1–2 cm diam.

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 orbiculate, equal, 3–8 mm, scarious;

petals 4, white, 3–8 mm;

stamens 3, anther red or yellow;

style exserted, filiform;

stigmas 2.

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

valves 3–4, splitting from base toward apex.

globose, 2–3 mm;

valves 2.

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

1–8, black, orbicular-reniform, 0.7–1.2 mm, shiny.

= 46, 92.

= 44.