Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, sometimes laxly so, to nearly decumbent, glabrous.

alternate;

sessile or subsessile;

blade linear to subfiliform, 8–25 × 0.5–1 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous.

usually with basal rosette; alternate;

sessile or subsessile, or with narrow petiolelike region to 1–2 mm;

basal blade obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, cauline becoming narrowly ovate or nearly linear distally, basal to 60 × 20 mm, cauline to 40 × 10 mm, succulent, base cuneate, apex bluntly rounded to obtuse or acute, especially distally, surfaces glabrous.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

capitate, 0.8–3.5(–4) × (0.8–)1.2–2 cm;

peduncle 3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

winged, 1.5–2.8 mm, glabrous.

usually purplish pink or lavender-pink, rarely white, 1.6–2.2 mm;

sepals ovate to narrowly lanceolate-ovate, 0.6–1 mm;

wings obovate or elliptic, 1.5–2 × 0.8–1 mm, apex obtuse to bluntly rounded;

keel 1.5–2 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2–3 lobes on each side.

usually bright orange, rarely yellow-orange, usually drying pale yellow, 4.5–6 mm;

sepals decurrent on pedicel, ovate, 1.2–2 mm, ciliolate;

wings elliptic, 5–7.5 × 2.7–3.6 mm, apex acuminate to abruptly cuspidate, partially involute;

keel 3.5–6 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2–4 lobes on each side, each lobe entire or divided.

oblong to ellipsoid, 1.4–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, margins not winged.

broadly ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.2–2.3 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.1(–0.2) mm, lobes less than 1/8 length of seed.

1–1.6 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.5–1.6 mm, lobes 1/2 to subequal length of seed.

= 64, 68.