Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, branched, bearing erect rosettes.

rootstocks, erect, branched from base, bearing rosettes.

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

leaf blades ovate-elliptic, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

erect, simple, 6–15 cm;

leaf blades oblanceolate-oblong, 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, erect, sessile;

blade green, appearing whitish because of pruinose covering, margins green, not white, strongly pruinose, not glaucous, narrowly obovate, laminar, 7–38 × 5–9 mm, base spurred, not scarious, apex usually obtuse to truncate, sometimes emarginate.

cymes, 2–7-flowered, 2-branched;

branches not recurved, forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

dense, paniculate cymes, 30–60-flowered, 7–9-branched;

branches not recurved, somewhat forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

to 1.2 mm.

3–5 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-merous;

sepals erect, connate basally, green, appearing blue-green, glaucous, lanceolate-oblong, equal, 4–7 × 1.5–3.2 mm, apex acute, (papillose);

petals erect, connate basally, creamy white, oblong, not carinate, 8.5–11.5 mm, apex acute, mucronate;

filaments white, becoming reddish;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales yellow, transversely oblong.

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

erect in fruit, connate basally, brown.

= 14–18.

= 30.