Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

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.

alternate;

sessile;

blade subulate, squamiform, 0.5–1.6(–2) × 0.3–0.7 mm, base obtuse, apex acute, 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.

cylindric, 0.4–3.5 × 0.3–0.5 cm;

peduncle 0.1–0.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, lanceolate.

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

0.2–0.5 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.

usually white, sometimes pinkish tinged, 1.8–2.7 mm;

sepals ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 0.6–1(–1.5) mm;

wings elliptic to obovate, 1.5–2.5 × 0.6–1.1 mm, apex usually obtuse to bluntly rounded, rarely acute, often minutely apiculate or cuspidate;

keel 1.5–2.2 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2or 3 lobes on each side.

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

ovoid to ellipsoid, 1.7–2.2 × 1.2–1.5 mm, margins not winged.

0.5–0.7 mm, densely pubescent;

aril 0–0.2 mm.

0.8–1.2 mm, pubescent;

aril vestigial.

= 64, 68.