Table 5. Spearman rank correlations between characteristics in the base population.

	Days	Height	F. Ht.	Leaf	Flower	Style	Int	Rosette
Diploids
Total height	0.3
Height of first flower	0.3	0.73
Leaf length	0.24	0.43	0.27
Flower size	−0.08	0.46	0.38	0.45
Style length	0	0.11	0.14	0.28	0.5
Inter-style distance	−0.09	−0.06	−0.14	0.16	0.07	0.31
Rosette Size at 3 weeks	−0.73	−0.26	−0.11	−0.23	0.03	0.01	0.01
Nodes to first flower	0.21	0.38	0.53	0.03	0.06	−0.03	−0.16	0.12
Neotetraploids
Total height	0.3
Height of first flower	0.5	0.66
Leaf length	0.2	0.32	0.26
Flower size	−0.02	0.06	−0.09	−0.14
Style length	−0.08	0.16	−0.02	−0.14	0.45
Inter-style distance	−0.3	0.22	−0.04	0.12	0.15	0.29
Rosette Size at 3 weeks	−0.56	−0.26	−0.16	−0.22	−0.1	0.02	0.06
Nodes to first flower	0.31	0.21	0.48	−0.18	−0.15	0.04	−0.24	0.02
Tetraploids
Total height	0.59
Height of first flower	0.67	0.85
Leaf length	0.47	0.38	0.36
Flower size	−0.2	0.01	−0.12	0.06
Style length	0.02	0.22	0.17	0.01	0.33
Inter-style distance	−0.17	0.09	0.06	0.04	0.17	0.25
Rosette Size at 3 weeks	−0.56	−0.27	−0.24	−0.2	0.07	0.07	0.07
Nodes to first flower	0.56	0.5	0.67	0.07	−0.15	0.17	−0.09	0

Boldface indicates Spearman's rank correlation coefficients with significance at p = 0.05 or less.