Herbaceous perennial with 1-3 elongate bulbs terminating in a thick, iris-like rhizome; outer bulb coats veined with parallel, not net-like, persistent fibers; leaves obtuse, flat, strap-like 12-30 cm long, 8mm wide; flower stalk erect, longer than t...
Tufted perennial from a taproot; stems numerous, wiry, 1-4 cm long; herbage strigulose with basifixed to obscurely dolabriform hairs; leaves crowded, 2-4 cm long; leaflets 9-15, 2.5-8 mm long, 1.5-2 times longer than wide; stipules connate (fused, fo...
Perennial from a taproot, strigulose or pilose with basifixed hairs; stems clustered on a root crown, spreading, distally ascending, 0.5-3 dm long; leaves pinnately compound, 6-20 cm long; leaflets 19-40, becoming smaller up the rachis, mostly ellipt...
Biennial; stems to 1 m tall, unbranched below the middle, with few ascending branches above, densely cobwebby and finely hairy at first, becoming sparsely hairy to nearly naked as it ages; leaves lance-shaped to nearly linear in outline, to 20 cm, gl...
Small tree or shrub to 3 m tall; branches thorny, the thorns purplish brown, 3-4 cm in length; leaves simple, alternate and rhombic in outline, margins with 3-4 broad lobes on each side of the upper two-thirds of the leaf, these lobes with fine margi...
Perennial herb 0.9-2.5 m tall; stems glabrous, green or bluish-green at the base; leaves all on stem and withered from the basal 1/5 of the stem at the time of anthesis, petioles 3-13 cm long, blades 8-18 cm long and 5-10 cm wide, palmately divided i...
Stems solitary or few in a cluster, more or less conical, 10-15 cm tall, 7-10 cm wide; ribs 7-12, tubercled; spines usually 3-7 per areole, thick, to over 1 mm near swollen base, often angular in cross section, usually white to pale gray, sometimes b...
Perennial herb arising from slender woody rhizomes; stems erect, to 3.5 dm tall; basal leaves obovate to oblanceolate 1.8-13.5 cm long, 6-27 mm wide, serrate with small shallow teeth, tapering at the base to a winged petiole; stem leaves similar, bec...