Flora of North America species comparison

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

procumbent, becoming erect, (reddish-shiny proximally), long-branched, not bearing rosettes.

erect, simple or branched, 8–13 cm;

leaf blades spatulate or cuneate, base short-spurred;

offsets not formed.

erect, simple or branched, 2–4 cm;

leaf blades orbiculate to broadly ovate, 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, (densely set), erect to slightly spreading, sessile;

blade green with prominent red dots, not glaucous, sometimes waxy, orbiculate to broadly obovate, semiterete, 2.5–3.5(–5) × 2–2.5 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded to acute.

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

branches spreading to erect, primary branch dichotomously forked;

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

subscorpioid cymes, 10–20-flowered, simple to 2-branched;

branches erect to spreading or recurved, sometimes forked;

bracts oblong, ca. 3 mm, base broadly spurred.

absent or 0.4–3+ mm.

absent.

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 suberect, distinct basally, greenish, sometimes with reddish striations, subovate, unequal, 2–2.5 × 0.1–1.6 mm, apex obtuse, (papillose);

petals erect to spreading, distinct, yellow with prominent, short, longitudinal red stripes, lanceolate, carinate, 4.5–5 mm, apex subobtuse, narrowly mucronate;

filaments whitish or pale yellow;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales inconspicuous.

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

spreading in fruit, distinct, tan or brown with reddish striations.

= 24.

= 52, 53, 104.