OregonFlora species comparison

creeping or growing upwards, clustered and forming dense stands; much branched, minutely puberulent and papillose, densely but inconspicuously glandular toward base.

erect; simple or branched, 5–18(30) cm, glabrous or sparsely minutely hairy;

stem leaves alternate, linear to ovate; broadest below middle or parallel-sided, similar to other leaves.

spreading to appressed, linear to ovate, 4–20(25) × 1–20 mm, green to reddish; thick, bases not or slightly spurred;

margins entire or low-papillose;

tips obtuse to rounded; papillae < 0.1 mm;

surfaces glabrous or with sparse hairs generally < 0.1 mm;

basal leaves approximately as wide as thick; on ascending leafy shoots, sessile.

panicle-like cymes with 15–50+ flowers, 3–5-branched;

bracts similar to leaves but smaller.

5-parted;

sepals erect, 0.5–1.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm, green;

tips acute;

petals spreading, lanceolate, 2–4.5 mm, white or rarely pink;

tips ± acute;

filaments white;

anthers dark red or dark purple.

erect, white.

=34, 51, 68, 102, 136.