Flora of North America species comparison

cauline;

petiole absent;

blade linear to narrowly oblong, unlobed [with 2 toothlike lobes distally], 3–22 mm, succulent, margins entire, spinose-ciliate, sometimes eciliate, with 1(–5) lime-secreting hydathodes (not sunk in pits, secretions not obvious), apex obtuse or apiculate, surfaces glabrous.

basal and cauline;

petiole ± flattened, 10–70 mm, (± hairy);

blade reniform, 5–7(–11)-lobed (lobes obtuse, sometimes acute), (5–)7.4–11.2(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, sparsely glandular-ciliate or eciliate, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular.

2–15-flowered cymes or thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, 2–15[–20] cm, glabrous or clear-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2–6(–29)-flowered, capitate thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers subsessile), (3–)5–15(–18) cm, densely tangled, reddish brown-hairy;

bracts (5–10), petiolate, (3–7-lobed, densely surrounding inflorescence).

sepals spreading, triangular, margins eciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals yellow to orange, sometimes orange-spotted, elliptic, 3–7 mm, ± equaling or exceeding sepals;

ovary 1/2 inferior.

(hypanthium U-shaped in longisection);

sepals erect, oblong to ovate, margins ± glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, ± broadly elliptic to obovate, 2–5(–6.5) mm, ± equaling sepals;

ovary ca. 1/2 inferior.

= 26.

= 26 (Russian Far East).