Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

usually erect, rarely somewhat sprawling, glabrous.

mostly basal, rarely cauline, with persistent rosette; alternate; usually with narrow petiolelike region to 15 mm, rarely (sub-)sessile;

basal blade spatulate, usually oblanceolate or obovate, rarely elliptic, 11–55 × (1.5–)5–20 mm, succulent, base cuneate or acute, apex rounded to acute, occasionally apiculate, rarely acuminate, surfaces glabrous.

usually alternate, sometimes subopposite or opposite when leaves scalelike proximally (less than 1 mm);

sessile or subsessile, sometimes with narrow petiolelike region to2 mm;

blade spatulate to obovate or, sometimes, scalelike proximally, linear-oblong or elliptic to oblanceolate distally, (8–)15–30(–40) × 2–6(–8) mm, base acute or cuneate, apex obtuse to rounded or, sometimes, acute proximally to mostly acute distally, surfaces glabrous.

capitate, 1–3.8 × 1–1.7 cm;

peduncle 2.3–7.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, often tardily so, or sometimes persistent, linear-subulate.

loosely cylindric, open, elongate, (2–)5–10(–25) × 0.8–1.4 cm;

peduncle 1–2 cm;

bracts deciduous, ovate to oblong-ovate.

winged, 0.4–0.8(–1) mm, glabrous.

1–4 mm, glabrous.

lemon-yellow to greenish yellow, drying green or yellowish green, 5.5–8.2 mm;

sepals decurrent on pedicel, lanceolate, 3–5.3 mm, sometimes ciliolate;

wings elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 5.5–8 × 1.2–2(–2.6) mm, apex long-acuminate to cuspidate, involute, tip 0.7–1.6 mm;

keel 3.5–5.8 mm, crest 2-parted, with 3 entire or 2-fid, linear lobes on each side;

stamens 6(–8).

usually pink to pale purple, rarely whitish, outer sepals sometimes with pink or white margins, 4–6 mm;

sepals ovate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

wings elliptic or obovate, 3–6 × 1.6–2.7 mm, apex obtuse to bluntly rounded;

keel (2–)3–5 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2 or 3 divided lobes on each side.

broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 1.6–2 × 1.2–1.6 mm, margins not winged.

broadly ellipsoid or globose-ovoid, 2–4 × 2–3 mm, margins not winged.

0.8–1.8 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.7–1.1 mm, lobes 1/3 to equal length of seed.

1.8–3 mm, usually densely short-pubescent to subglabrous;

aril 0.8–2 mm, lobes 1/3–3/4 length of seed.

flowers present in racemes usually below, rarely just above, soil surface, sometimes in proximal leaf axils later in season.

= 64, 68.

= 56.