Flora of North America species comparison

trailing (nonflowering shoots ascending at tip), laxly branched, not bearing rosettes.

rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes.

erect, usually simple, 5–10(–15) cm;

leaf blades triangular-ovate, base short-spurred;

offsets not formed.

erect, simple, 3–14 cm;

leaf blades spatulate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

(usually deciduous, if persistent, then blade white, soft, papery), alternate, (densely imbricate), spreading, sessile;

blade yellow-green, not glaucous, triangular-ovate, terete to semiterete (elliptic in cross section), (2–)5(–8) × 1–4 mm, base obtusely short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse.

alternate, spreading, petiolate;

blade green, often glaucous or pruinose, spatulate, terete to laminar, 7–19 × 4.5–10 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded or truncate, submucronate, (surfaces papillose marginally).

cymes, 2–12-flowered or flowers solitary, monochasially (1–)2(–3)-branched;

branches not recurved, rarely forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

cymes, ca. 30-flowered, ca. 3-branched;

branches not recurved, forked;

bracts oblong-spatulate or linear, ca. 3 cm, base not spurred.

absent or to 1 mm.

2–8 mm.

5-merous;

sepals erect to spreading, distinct basally, green, oblong-ovate, unequal, 2–3 × 1.3–2.3, mm, apex obtuse;

petals spreading, distinct, bright yellow, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, not carinate, 5–9 mm, apex acute to acuminate;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow, (oblong);

nectar scales yellowish green, square.

5-merous;

sepals spreading to erect, connate basally, green or yellow-green, glaucous or pruinose, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or obovate, equal, ca. 2.5 × 1.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse;

petals widely spreading from short, erect base, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, linear to oblanceolate, not carinate, 4.5–9 mm, apex acute;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales yellow, reniform or nearly square.

stellately patent in fruit, distinct, yellowish.

divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown.

= 40, 60, 80, 100, 120.

= 30.