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, 2–30(–50) mm;

blade reniform, 3–5(–7)-lobed (lobes rounded, sometimes ± obtuse, distalmost unlobed), (2.6–)3.7–5.2(–7.4) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate or sparsely glandular-ciliate, without lime-secreting hydathodes (with nonsecreting hydathodes at lobe apices), apex acute, surfaces glabrous.

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

bracts sessile.

2–3(–5)-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers pedicellate), 1.7–7 cm, glabrous or sparsely to ± densely tangled, pink-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts (2–3), petiolate, (unlobed or 1–3-lobed, reduced).

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, (sometimes rusty brown), elliptic to ovate, margins eciliate or sparsely glandular-ciliate, glabrous or sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular;

petals white, sometimes pink tinged, not spotted, oblong to elliptic, 2–6 mm, to 2–3 times length of sepals;

ovary 1/2 inferior.

= 26.