OregonFlora species comparison

decumbent to erect, 20–80 cm;

branches few, glabrous to glaucous.

lower cauline lanceolate to oblanceolate, 4–8 cm × 5–20 mm; upper cauline lanceolate to ovate, 3–4.5 cm × 5–15 mm, gradually reduced upward.

terminal; open cymes, not 1-sided;

pedicels glabrous.

bisexual or unisexual (pistillate), nodding to spreading;

calyces campanulate, inflated and becoming papery in fruit, 7–10 mm, glabrous, obscurely 10–15-veined, netted throughout; pale commissures absent;

lobes 2–3 mm; acute to mucronate;

petal claws glabrous; appendages 0 or 2; minute;

limbs 7 mm, white, emarginate or lobes 2, 3–4 mm;

stamens exserted;

styles 3, exserted.

subspherical;

teeth 6;

stalks 2–3 mm.

1–1.5 mm; black, not winged.

=24.