Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, simple or much-branched, (glandular-hairy), not bearing rosettes.

erect, simple or branched, 8–13 cm;

leaf blades spatulate or cuneate, base short-spurred;

offsets not formed.

spreading or erect, simple, 5–15 cm, (glabrous or with scattered glandular hairs);

leaf blades linear to oblong, base not 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, ascending, sessile;

blade green, sometimes glaucous, linear to oblong, semiterete or ± laminar, 4–20 × 1–2 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse, (surfaces usually glabrous or, rarely, glandular-hairy).

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

branches spreading to erect, primary branch dichotomously forked;

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

lax to ± dense cymes, 2–8-flowered or flowers solitary, 2–4-branched;

branches not recurved, not forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

absent or 0.4–3+ mm.

to 0.5 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.

5–9-merous;

sepals erect, connate basally, green, broadly triangular, equal, ca. 2 × 1 mm, apex acute, (glandular-pubescent);

petals spreading, distinct, white with pinkish midvein, lanceolate, not carinate, 4–5(–7) mm, apex narrowly acuminate;

filaments white;

anthers dark purple;

nectar scales white, spatulate-quadrate.

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

stellate-spreading in fruit, connate basally, white or pale pink.

= 24.

= 40.