OregonFlora species comparison

10–20 cm, glandular-hairy.

prostrate (non-flowering) or ascending to erect (flowering), sometimes mat-forming.

basal ascending to somewhat spreading, flexuous, recurving in multiple directions, 15–35 mm, generally fleshy;

tips blunt to apiculate;

cauline (2)3–5 pairs, not closely overlapping, not reduced above

opposite; needle-like to narrowly linear, often congested at or near bases of flowering stems;

tips sharp pointed;

petioles 0;

stipules 0.

terminal; open or congested cymes;

bracts present.

sepals 3–3.8 mm, 4–4.5 mm in fruit;

tips obtuse or rounded;

petals 2–4.5 mm.

bisexual;

sepals 5; ± free, glabrous to glandular-hairy;

petals 5, white;

tips entire or slightly notched;

stamens 10; borne on hypanthium;

staminodes 0;

ovary sutures 6;

styles 3.

4.5–5.5 mm;

valves glabrous.

capsules; ovoid to urceolate, opening by 6 ascending to recurved teeth.

oblong to pyriform, 1.8–2.4 mm; smooth to tuberculate.

1–10, elliptic-ovoid, oblong, or sometimes spherical, 1.2–3(3.2) mm; grayish, brown; yellowish brown, or blackish; smooth to tuberculate.

open;

flowers 7–40+;

pedicels 3–20 mm, glandular-hairy.