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.

cauline (crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade spatulate, unlobed, 2–7 mm, leathery, margins entire, densely glandular-ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse, not or short-mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

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

bracts sessile.

3–6-flowered cymes, 2–6.5 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts 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 to ascending, ovate to oblong, margins eciliate or glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to cream, yellow-spotted, sometimes sparsely red-spotted proximally, elliptic to obovate, 3–4 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

= 26.

= 26.