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.

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.

3–6-flowered cymes, 2.5–12 cm, 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, 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 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.