Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or decumbent, simple or 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, 2.5–11 cm;

leaf blades lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, base short-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, widely divergent, sessile;

blade pale or bluish green, not glaucous, narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, subterete to, rarely, globular, 3–6 × 1.5–2 mm, base short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse.

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

branches not recurved, forked;

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

cymes, 20–60(–100)-flowered, 1–3-branched;

branches ± erect to spreading, sometimes slightly recurved, usually not forked, sometimes 1–2-forked;

bracts similar to leaves.

2–8 mm.

absent or to 1 mm.

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 erect, distinct, yellow-green, lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, unequal, 0.6–3 × 0.4–1.5 mm, (base short-spurred), apex acute;

petals spreading, distinct, yellow, elliptic-oblong, slightly cucullate, 2–4 mm, apex mucronate;

filaments yellow;

anthers yellow;

nectar scales yellow or translucent, stipitate-reniform, subquadrate, or obovate.

divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown.

widely spreading in fruit, connate basally, straw-yellow.

= 30.

= 20.