Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, much-branched, bearing basal rosettes.

erect, simple, 3–14 cm;

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

offsets not formed.

erect, simple or branched from base, 2–10 cm;

leaf blades elliptic-oblong to linear, 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, ascending, sessile;

blade pea green, not glaucous, elliptic-oblong to linear, semiterete with flattened adaxial face, 3–8 × 1.4–1.9 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.

dense to congested corymbs, 3–10-flowered, 2–3-branched;

branches not recurved, not forked;

bracts similar to leaves, smaller.

2–8 mm.

3–8 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, green speckled with red or dark purple, lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, equal, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse, (glandular-hairy);

petals stellately spreading, distinct, pink-red with darker midvein area abaxially, elliptic-ovate, not carinate basally, 3–4.5 mm, apex acute, (rarely glandular-hairy);

filaments white;

anthers red;

nectar scales red, reniform or subquadrate.

divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown.

erect in fruit, distinct, bright yellowish green turning dark wine-red.

= 30.

= 30.