Flora of North America species comparison

rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes.

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

erect, simple, 3–14 cm;

leaf blades spatulate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, base not 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, petiolate;

blade green, often glaucous or pruinose, spatulate, terete to laminar, 7–19 × 4.5–10 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded or truncate, submucronate, (surfaces papillose marginally).

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.

cymes, ca. 30-flowered, ca. 3-branched;

branches not recurved, forked;

bracts oblong-spatulate or linear, ca. 3 cm, base not 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.

2–8 mm.

absent.

5-merous;

sepals spreading to erect, connate basally, green or yellow-green, glaucous or pruinose, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or obovate, equal, ca. 2.5 × 1.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse;

petals widely spreading from short, erect base, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, linear to oblanceolate, not carinate, 4.5–9 mm, apex acute;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales yellow, reniform or nearly square.

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.

divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown.

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

= 30.

= 52, 53, 104.