OregonFlora species comparison

prostrate to ascending; much branched from near base, 0.3–2 dm.

erect; simple to much branched from a main axis, 2–7(15) dm, sometimes reddish;

branches ascending.

blades deltoid to rhombic-ovate, 10–25(35) mm, sometimes hastate at base;

margins shallowly dentate;

tips rounded to obtuse;

lower surface sparsely farinose;

petioles 6–15(20) mm, winged;

wings sometimes extending to stem.

blades ovate-lanceolate, rhombic-ovate or lanceolate, 10–60(120) mm, bases cuneate;

margins irregularly sinuate-dentate, rarely subentire;

tips rounded or obtuse, often with a minute mucronate tip, sometimes acute;

surfaces lower white-farinose; upper green and glabrate;

petioles 5–40 mm.

terminal and axillary spikes of loosely rounded to indistinct flower clusters; clusters 2.3–4.5 mm wide; each subtended by a leaf-like bract.

axillary and terminal panicles; erect or ascending; clusters tight and indistinct, usually not subtended by leaf-like bracts.

perianths fused nearly to tip, 0.8–1.2 mm, green, not membranous or fleshy, shallowly 3–4-toothed, enclosing fruit at maturity;

stamens 1 or 2.

perianths 5-parted, divided nearly to base; main keel indistinct or absent;

stamens 5.

broadly ovoid, laterally flattened;

pericarp loose and free.

pericarp smooth or minutely pitted.

vertical, dark brown; shiny.

horizontal; black.

=54.