Flora of North America species comparison

rootstocks and decumbent branches, (stout), bearing terminal rosettes.

procumbent, creeping, or spreading, with ascending or erect branches, (tuberculate), not bearing rosettes.

erect, simple or branched, 8–13 cm;

leaf blades spatulate or cuneate, base short-spurred;

offsets not formed.

erect, simple, 1–5 cm, (papillose);

leaf blades elliptic, base short-spurred;

offsets not formed.

alternate, spreading, sessile;

blade lustrous light green, not glaucous, spatulate or cuneate, laminar (thickest near apex), 7–12 × 4.4–9 mm, base short-spurred, not scarious, apex broadly rounded or truncate.

alternate, (imbricate to subimbricate), erect to spreading, sessile;

blade bright green, sometimes glaucous, suboblong to ovate, somewhat flattened to terete, 4–9 × 1–2 mm, base widened, short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse, (surfaces smooth or papillose).

dense corymbs, 5–10-flowered, 3-branched;

branches spreading to erect, primary branch dichotomously forked;

bracts spatulate or oblanceolate, 5–8 mm, base spurred.

3-parted cymes, 2–10-flowered or flowers solitary, simple or monochasially 1-branched;

branches erect to slightly recurved, not forked;

bracts similar to leaves, sometimes imbricate.

absent or 0.4–3+ mm.

absent or to 1.5 mm.

5-merous;

sepals erect, connate basally, green, ovate-lanceolate, equal, ca. 3.5 × 2 mm, apex acuminate or acute;

petals erect or erect basally and divergent distally, connate basally, yellow, narrowly lanceolate, carinate, ca. 10.5 mm, apex aristate;

filaments yellowish or greenish;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales yellow, subquadrate to spatulate or oblong.

5-merous;

sepals erect to suberect, distinct basally, green to pinkish, linear or lanceolate, slightly unequal, 3–5 × 0.2–1 mm, apex obtuse;

petals spreading, distinct basally, white, suboblong, not carinate, 5–6.5 mm, apex obtuse, shortly mucronate;

filaments white to pale pink;

anthers red or purplish;

nectar scales whitish to pale pink, oblong, (retuse).

erect in fruit, connate basally, light brown or yellow.

divergent or stellately spreading in fruit, distinct, red to purple or stramineous with reddish to purplish striations.

= 24.

= ca. 36–50, 68–72.