Perennial herb from shallow slender rhizomes; stems from dense basal rosettes, erect, 4-35 cm tall, green or purplish, glabrous, unbranched on the lower 1/2; basal leaves thick, entire, linear-oblanceolate, sessile, 8-30 mm long, glabrous except on t...
Annual; possibly stoloniferous; glabrous (or nearly so); leaves 1-6 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, the elongated petioles widening to oblanceolate, entire, slightly fleshy blades; flowers on slender peduncles; calyx 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous, the lobes ovate-ac...
Perennial herb up to about 25 cm tall, grayish-hairy with straight hairs that lie against the surface of the foliage; stems with a thin, cord-like, easily broken, subterranean portion bearing a few small bracts, and a very short aerial, leafy portion...
Root large, fleshy, round at the top, tapering; stems 2 m long, pale gray-green, slender, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, strongly angled by the 4-6 low, broad ribs; areoles narrowly oval about 4 mm long, white to gray woolly, bearing approximately 12 gray to ...
Succulent perennial herb; taproot tuberous, roughly globose to broadly napiform, up to 5 cm in diameter (usually less); stems short, usually not extending above the ground surface, terminated by a leafy rosette 5-15 cm in diameter; leaves terete, 3-1...
Dwarf annual with 1 to many stems; leaf blades about 1 mm broad, flat or involute, short; culms mostly 5-15 cm tall; panicle narrow, few-flowered, the branches erect-appressed; spikelets 4-6 mm long; glumes shorter than the first floret, broad, stron...
Perennial; stems several from woody crown, 2-5 dm tall, usually freely branching, puberulent and glandular, at least in inflorescence; basal leaves puberulent, oblanceolate, (5)10-18 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, attenuate to long petioles; cauline leaves 1-...
