Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, branched, bearing erect rosettes.

(primary) repent, branched, bearing axillary rosettes.

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

leaf blades ovate-elliptic, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

erect or ascending, simple, 0.5–4.5 cm;

leaf blades obovate, oblanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, base short-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 or, rarely, nearly opposite, spreading, sessile;

blade dark green to yellow-green, speckled with red, not glaucous, obovate to oblanceolate, subterete, 4.8–9 × 2.2–4.2 mm, base spurred, not scarious, apex rounded or obtuse with minute mucronate appendage, (surfaces papillose).

cymes, 2–7-flowered, 2-branched;

branches not recurved, forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

cymes, 2–9-flowered, or flowers solitary, 1–3-branched;

branches not recurved, not forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

to 1.2 mm.

absent or to 1 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(–8)-merous;

sepals divergent or suberect, distinct, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate-elliptic, unequal, 4.4–7.2 × 1.2–1.7 mm, apex acute to obtuse, (sometimes papillose);

petals basal 1/3 erect, widely spreading distally, slightly connate basally, white streaked with pink, lanceolate, not carinate, 3.5–10 mm, apex acute with minute mucronate appendage;

filaments white, streaked with red;

anthers dark red;

nectar scales yellow, orange, or pink, stipitate-reniform or subquadrate.

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

erect in fruit, connate basally, pale brown.

= 14–18.

= 32, ca. 128.