Flora of North America species comparison

cauline (crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade spatulate, unlobed or minutely 3-toothed or -lobed apically, 4–11 mm, leathery, margins entire, (not cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

basal and cauline, (basal usually ephemeral, gradually dying through growing season, cauline conspicuous, reduced distally);

petiole flattened, (5–)10–60(–90) mm;

blade round to reniform, 3–7(–9)-lobed usually less than halfway to midvein (distal unlobed), (3–)5–18(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate or sometimes sparsely glandular-ciliate, apex rounded, sometimes acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular.

3–6-flowered cymes, 2.5–12 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2(–5)-flowered paniculate or racemelike thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers nodding in bud), some or all flowers but terminal one on each branch often replaced by bulbils, 3–30 cm, stipitate-glandular;

bracts (proximal ephemeral), petiolate or sessile.

sepals erect, ovate to oblong, margins sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to cream, yellow-spotted proximally, red- or orange-spotted distally, these often faded in dried specimens, elliptic, 4–6 mm, much longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

sepals erect, (sometimes reddish), oblong, margins glandular-ciliate, surfaces short-stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, obovate to spatulate, 5–12 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

= 26.

= 24, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60, 70, 72.