On the Rare Plant Technical Council List
Perennial; stems erect or ascending, clustered, 3-9 dm long, glabrate or strigose to inflorescence; petioles 1-3 cm long; leaves trifoliolate; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, the terminal longest, to 3-6 cm, generally about 1 cm wide, 4-5 times longer th...
Densely caespitose perennial; caudex few-branched, compact, with persistent, thickened leaves; basal leaves imbricate, undifferentiated into blade and petiole, linear-lanceolate, 5-8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, surfaces glabrous or rarely pilose, margins...
Perennial herb, not cespitose; caudex few to several branched. Stems (2-) 4-10(-12) cm, erect to ascending or rarely subdecumbent. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole 2-5 mm, leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate, 5-12 × 1-2 mm, both surfaces moderately pubesc...
Winter annuals or biennials (perennial?); taproots enlarged above; stems 1 to several, usually with several branches 1.5-3.5 dm long, pubescent at base with simple trichomes, glabrous above ;leaves mostly in flat basal rosettes, denticulate to dentat...
Perennial; caudex multicipital; branches prostrate, slender and usually matted; basal leaves tufted, linear-oblanceolate to obovate, entire to denticulate, 0.5-1.3(-2.5) cm long; stem leaves 3-8, slightly smaller; plants including pedicels cinereous ...
Tufted perennial; caudex simple or closely branched, thick with marcescent (withered but persistent) leaf bases; stems few, 1-3 dm long, very slender, erect to partially decumbent, simple or few-branched, sparsely pubescent below with simple or forke...
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...
Low spreading shrub 2-3(5) dm tall, intricately branched; leaves grayish-green, alternate, entire, linear, tomentulose, tips mucronate; inflorescence a paniculate cyme; heads discoid, 8-11 mm long, 1.8-2.1 mm wide, phyllaries 16-22, outer ones someti...
Taprooted perennial, mat-forming, 10-70 cm in diameter; leaves mostly basal, spreading or ascending, 8-30 in rosettes at ends of caudex branches, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate or spatulate, 8-23 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, round or obtuse at the tip, mo...
Densely tufted, sparsely hairy perennial herbs; stems from many crowded, short branches, 5-16 cm tall; basal leaves lance-shaped to elliptic, broader above the middle, to 7 cm long and 7 mm wide, usually smaller, blades about one-half the length of t...