Flora of North America species comparison

basal and cauline;

petiole absent;

blade oblong-lanceolate or elliptic to obovate, unlobed, 5–20 mm, fleshy, margins entire, sparsely to densely, coarsely glandular-ciliate, distal sometimes ciliate, apex acute to ± obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

cauline (crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade broadly obovate, prominently 3-lobed apically (distal unlobed, reduced), (lobes lanceolate to oblong, mucronate), 4.5–12 mm, ± leathery, margins entire, (cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex acute, not or slightly mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

2–3(–5)-flowered, lax cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 1–15 cm, densely purplish-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2–4-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 3.5–13 cm, glabrous except bracts purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

sepals erect, elliptic or oblong-ovate, margins stipitate glandular-ciliate, surfaces stipitate-glandular;

petals yellow, not spotted, elliptic to broadly obovate, 4–9(–10) mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior to ca. 1/2 inferior.

sepals erect to ascending, (purplish), ovate to oblong, margins eciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to cream, not spotted, elliptic to obovate, 3.5–7 mm, much longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

= 26, 52.