Flora of North America species comparison

cauline, (marcescent, crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade (often reddish), linear to cuneate, 1–3-lobed or -toothed apically (distal cauline unlobed), rarely all unlobed, (lobes long spinose-mucronate), 5–20 mm, leathery, margins entire, softly glandular-ciliate, (nonsecreting hydathodes present adaxially), apex acute, long spinose-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.

3–10-flowered cymes, 4–10(–24) cm, white to sparsely pink- to purple-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 to ascending, (sometimes purplish), triangular-ovate, margins ± glandular-ciliate, surfaces white to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

petals white to cream, proximally to distally yellow-, orange-, and red-spotted, elliptic to ovate, 4–7 mm, much longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

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.

= 26, 52.