Flora of North America species comparison

rhizomes, horizontal, much-branched, bearing rosettes.

decumbent, branched, bearing erect rosettes.

erect, simple, (6–)10–28 cm;

leaf blades suborbiculate or obovate, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

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

leaf blades ovate-elliptic, base not spurred;

offsets not formed.

alternate, ascending to spreading, sessile to subsessile;

blade green, glaucous, not strongly pruinose, obovate or oblanceolate, subterete, 10–36 × 5–16 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex emarginate to retuse.

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).

panicles, 10–120-flowered, 3–20-branched;

branches not recurved, dichotomously forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

cymes, 2–7-flowered, 2-branched;

branches not recurved, forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

2–5 mm.

to 1.2 mm.

5-merous;

sepals (persistent, closely appressed to corolla tube), erect, connate basally, greenish, ovate, equal, 3.2–3.5 × 1–3 mm, apex subacute;

petals (persistent until fruiting), erect basally, divergent apically, connate basally, creamy white, yellowish white, or pale yellow, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, cucullate, 5–9(–11.5) mm, apex abruptly pointed;

filaments pale yellow;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales white or yellow, subreniform.

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.

erect in fruit, distinct, brown, (strongly 5-veined).

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

= 90.

= 14–18.