Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

usually without basal rosette at anthesis; alternate;

sessile or subsessile;

basal blade obovate or spatulate to narrowly elliptic, cauline oblanceolate, spatulate-elliptic, or linear, (7–)15–40(–70) × 1.5–8 mm, base often cuneately narrowed and petiolelike proximally, acute to obtuse distally, apex usually rounded proximally, acute to obtuse distally, surfaces glabrous.

in cymose panicles, each stem with to 110 racemose branches, 1.8 × 0.7–1.1 cm, ± flat-topped, 2.5–15 ×3–15 cm;

central ones nearly sessile or peduncle to 2 cm, lateral ones subsessile or peduncle to 2(–3) cm;

bracts usually persistent, lanceolate-ovate.

narrowly winged, (1–)1.3–2.3 mm, glabrous.

bright yellow, drying green or yellow-brown, 3–3.5 mm;

sepals decurrent on pedicel, ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 1–3 mm;

wings ovate, elliptic-obovate, obovate, or spatulate, 2.5–3.5 × 1–1.4 mm, apex acuminate to cuspidate, involute;

keel 2–2.5 mm, crest 2-parted, with (1 or)2 or 3 lobes on each side.

subglobose, 0.8–1 × 0.8–1 mm, margins not winged.

0.5–0.7 mm, densely pubescent;

aril 0–0.2 mm.

= 64, 68.