Flora of North America species comparison

basal and cauline, (basal persistent, compact);

petiole absent (cuneate base ± petiolelike);

blade oblanceolate to obovate, (2–)3(–5)-toothed or shallowly lobed apically, rarely unlobed (distal often so), (lobes forwardly directed), (2–)4–15 mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, stipitate glandular-ciliate, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrate to stipitate-glandular.

cauline, (not imbricate), opposite (distalmost alternate);

petiole absent;

blade oblanceolate to elliptic, unlobed, 5–9 mm, fleshy, margins entire, ciliate, with 1(–3) lime-secreting hydathodes, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous.

(2–)6–15(–40)-flowered thyrses, (1–)4–25 cm, densely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered cymes, ebracteate, 3–4 cm, glabrate.

sepals erect, (usually reddish purple), ovate or triangular to oblong, margins stipitate glandular-ciliate, surfaces stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, obovate to oblanceolate, (2–)3–6 mm, equaling or longer than sepals;

ovary inferior.

sepals erect, ovate, margins ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals salmon to flesh colored, sometimes red or orange, rarely yellow, sometimes violet tinged, not spotted, obovate to oblanceolate, 12–15 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary to 1/4 inferior.

= 22.

= 52.