Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous or sparsely floccose-tomentose when young.

(often purple-tinged) glabrous.

single or loosely clustered.

clustered (arching upward to semiprostrate).

evenly distributed;

petiolate;

blades narrowly triangular, (3–)4–10+ × 2–6 cm, bases usually ± truncate, sometimes tapered, margins usually dentate, rarely subentire (distal leaves subsessile, smaller).

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;

corolla laminae 9–15 mm.

± 8;

corolla laminae 8–12 mm.

(± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 6–10 mm, tips usually green, rarely black.

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

of 2–6 bractlets (rarely more than 2 mm).

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

10–30(–60) in corymbiform to subracemiform arrays.

1–5+.

glabrous.

glabrous or strigose-hirtellous, at least on angles.

= 40, 80.

= 40, 40+, 80.