Flora of North America species comparison

erect, leafy, 8–85 cm, stipitate-glandular.

simple, 20–40 cm.

in basal rosette and cauline;

cauline leaves (1–)2(–10), usually alternate (opposite in L. cymbalaria), unlobed, lobed, or palmately compound, sometimes with bulbils in axils;

stipules present;

petiole stipitate-glandular;

blade rhombic or orbiculate to reniform, lobed, base cordate, hastate, rounded, ligulate, or cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces often stipitate-glandular;

venation palmate.

in basal rosette and cauline, basal shallowly 2–5-lobed, cauline (2–10), 3-lobed with secondary teeth, usually much reduced, similar to basal, (bearing axillary bulbils, aerial bulbils may replace flowers in axils);

stipules small, not decurrent onto petiole, (margins fimbriate);

petiole to 8 cm;

blade dark green or reddish green, orbiculate, (margins toothed), surfaces hairy.

compact or lax racemes, arising from axillary buds in basal rosette, 2–12(–25)-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, (flowers sometimes replaced by bulbils), bracteate.

1–4(–6), (lax), nodding, 2–6(–12)-flowered racemes, often many-branched, (15–50 cm).

equaling or shorter than hypanthium, (flowers long-pedicellate).

hypanthium partially adnate to proximal 1/2 to entire length of ovary, free from ovary 1–2 mm, green;

sepals 5, green tinged with red;

petals 5, white or pink; nectariferous tissue inconspicuous;

stamens 10, (inserted on hypanthium, inner whorl attached proximal to point of petal insertion);

filaments filiform; (anthers cordate);

pistil 3-carpellate;

ovary superior to 1/2 or almost completely inferior, 1-locular, carpels fully connate at ovaries;

placentation parietal;

styles 3;

stigmas 3.

persistent, not fragrant, horizontal;

hypanthium narrowly campanulate with truncate base, not elongating in fruit, throat open, (length 2 times diam.);

sepals erect in bud, becoming widely spreading after anthesis, triangular;

petals (completely exserted), widely spreading, (lax), white, obovate-pandurate, lamina spoon-shaped, narrowly clawed, unlobed or 3(–5)-lobed, 5–12 mm, ultimate margins entire;

ovary superior;

styles much exserted in fruit;

stigma papillae apical.

3-beaked.

(50–200), usually dark brown, ovoid, smooth, wrinkled, or tuberculate.

0.4–0.5 mm, tuberculate (tubercles in 3–19 rows, blunt).

= 7.

= 14.