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, (basal usually ephemeral, gradually dying through growing season, cauline conspicuous, reduced distally);

petiole flattened, (5–)10–60(–90) mm;

blade round to reniform, 3–7(–9)-lobed usually less than halfway to midvein (distal unlobed), (3–)5–18(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate or sometimes sparsely glandular-ciliate, apex rounded, sometimes acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular.

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

bracts sessile.

2(–5)-flowered paniculate or racemelike thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers nodding in bud), some or all flowers but terminal one on each branch often replaced by bulbils, 3–30 cm, stipitate-glandular;

bracts (proximal ephemeral), petiolate or sessile.

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.

sepals erect, (sometimes reddish), oblong, margins glandular-ciliate, surfaces short-stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, obovate to spatulate, 5–12 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

= 26.

= 24, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60, 70, 72.