Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, branched, bearing erect rosettes.

rootstocks, horizontal, simple, bearing basal rosettes (axillary shoots with subterranean, white stems that detach easily and bear terminal rosettes of colorless leaves).

erect, decumbent, or ascending, simple, 3–12 cm;

leaf blades ovate-elliptic, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

erect, simple, (5–)11(–18) cm;

leaf blades ovate or elliptic, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

opposite and decussate (rarely alternate), ascending, sessile;

blade pale green, speckled with pink, sometimes pink or red, glaucous, usually elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, sometimes ovate-elliptic, subterete, ± globular, 4.2–7.2 × 2.8–4.3 mm, base not spurred, (clasping), not scarious, apex widely rounded or sometimes weakly emarginate, (surfaces minutely papillose).

alternate, spreading, outermost ones petiolate (petiole 4–5 mm);

blade green or greenish white, not glaucous, oblanceolate, obovate, or narrowly spatulate, laminar, 2–16 × 1.4–3.2 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex blunt, (surfaces papillose).

cymes, 2–7-flowered, 2-branched;

branches not recurved, forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

cymes, 5–60-flowered, 3–6-branched;

branches often strongly recurved, each 1 or 2 times dichotomously forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

to 1.2 mm.

to 0.3 mm.

5-merous;

sepals erect, connate basally, pale green, glaucous, lanceolate, equal, 2–4.2 × 1.3–2 mm, apex obtuse, (papillose);

petals basally erect, distally spreading, connate basally, yellow, elliptic-lanceolate, slightly carinate, 6–9 mm, apex obtuse with mucronate appendage;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow, (sometimes compressed and winged);

nectar scales yellow, orange-red, or salmon-pink, reniform to square.

(5–)6(–7)-merous;

sepals erect, slightly connate basally, green, ovate, equal, 1.5–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, apex acute;

petals spreading, distinct nearly to base, canary yellow, keel green or dark red, lanceolate to oblong, carinate, 4–6 mm, apex subobtuse to acute;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales deep yellow, subquadrate.

erect or ascending in fruit, connate basally, straw colored with purple stripes.

stellately spreading in fruit, connate basally, brown.

= 14–18.

= 16.