Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, 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.

sometimes with basal rosette at anthesis; alternate;

sessile or subsessile, proximal leaves sometimes with narrow, petiolelike base to 2 mm;

basal blade spatulate, cauline obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate proximally, becoming lanceolate distally, basal to 30–60 × 5–15 mm, cauline 8–45 × 2–8(–12) mm, succulent, base cuneate or acute, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse or rounded proximally, surfaces glabrous.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

capitate, usually 2.5–3(–5) × 1.8–2.5 cm;

peduncle 1–15 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, narrowly ovate to linear-lanceolate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

winged, 2–2.5 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.

bright yellow, drying pale yellow to dark greenish brown, 6–9 mm;

sepals decurrent on pedicel, deltate-subulate to ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, ciliolate;

wings oblong, elliptic, or obovate, 4.5–9 × 2–4 mm, apex acuminate, acumen 0.5–0.8 mm, involute;

keel 5–6 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2–4 2-fid lobes on each side.

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

obovoid, ellipsoid or subglobose, 1.5–2 × 1.5–2 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

1.2–1.6 mm, pubescent;

aril 1.1–1.6 mm, lobes subequal to or greater than length of seed.

= 64, 68.