Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous or with tufts of white hairs in leaf axils.

glabrous or sparsely tomentose.

usually 1 (branching distally, unevenly reddish, usually somewhat lax).

usually single (erect), sometimes 2–6 (branching from bases, arching upward).

evenly distributed;

petiolate (proximal) or sessile;

blades lanceolate to lance-linear, 3–10+ × (0.5–)1–2 cm, bases tapered (or auriculate), margins (sometimes revolute) unevenly dentate to subentire (mid and distal leaves similar, smaller, bases expanded, ± truncate to cordate, clasping).

(sometimes subsucculent) evenly distributed; ± petiolate (proximal);

blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate 2–5(–7+) × 0.5–2(–3+) cm, bases tapered, margins subpinnatifid to dentate or subentire (mid and distal leaves sessile, bases clasping).

usually ± 8 or ± 13, rarely 0;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

± 13;

corolla laminae 8–11 mm.

± 21, (4–)5–8 mm, tips often with minute black dots.

± 21 (sometimes fewer), 5–7(–8) mm, tips black.

of 3–5+ linear to subulate bractlets (to 1.5 mm).

of 5–8+ lanceolate to lance-linear or filiform bractlets (0.5–3 mm, usually inconspicuous).

4–12 in loose, corymbiform arrays.

usually 3–10(–20+) in open, cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly (depauperate plants).

hairy.

hirtellous-strigose.

= 40.