Flora of North America species comparison

basal and cauline, (cauline 1–4);

petiole absent;

blade linear (cauline) or oblong to oblanceolate or spatulate, unlobed, 2–8.5 mm, fleshy, margins (recurved), entire, eciliate, apex obtuse, not mucronate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate.

basal (sometimes cauline on trailing stems), (closely imbricate);

petiole absent;

blade round to broadly obovate, unlobed, 1–4 mm, ± fleshy, margins entire, stiffly bristly-ciliate, apex obtuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous.

solitary flowers, 2–7 cm, sparsely to densely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

solitary flowers, to 1 cm, glabrous;

bracts sessile.

sepals erect to spreading (reflexed in fruit, often purplish), broadly ovate to elliptic, margins eciliate or sometimes sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals pale yellow, rarely purple, faded when dried, not spotted, elliptic to obovate, 4–8 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

unisexual (plants dioecious);

sepals spreading in flower, reflexed in fruit, (purple), triangular to ovate, margins ciliate, surfaces hairy;

petals yellow, drying cream to brown, not spotted, linear to oblanceolate, 1–2.5 mm, ± equaling sepals;

ovary superior.

= 16 (Russia).

= 12.