Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous.

(often purple-tinged) glabrous.

1–(2–4).

clustered (arching upward to semiprostrate).

(thickish-turgid) progressively reduced distally; petiolate;

blades broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 2.5–15 × 1–5 cm, bases tapered, margins sharply dentate to subentire (some teeth callous; mid leaves sometimes larger than proximal; distal leaves sessile, smaller, often clasping).

evenly distributed or smaller and fewer distally (somewhat stiffish-succulent when fresh, proximalmost and distalmost often smaller, bractlike); petiolate;

blades ovate or obovate to oblanceolate, 2–5(–7) × 1–3(–4) cm, bases ± truncate to tapered, margins laciniate to dentate or subentire.

± 8 or ± 13;

corolla laminae 5–12 mm.

± 8;

corolla laminae 8–12 mm.

(± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous).

(± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 5–12 mm, tips green or brownish.

of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries).

0 or of 1–5+ usually lance-deltate to linear, sometimes foliaceous, bractlets (lengths mostly 1/5–1/2 phyllaries).

(1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays.

1–5+.

glabrous.

glabrous or strigose-hirtellous, at least on angles.

= 40.

= 40, 40+, 80.