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 (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.

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

bracts sessile.

solitary flowers, to 1 cm, glabrous;

bracts 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.

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.

= 26.

= 12.