Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, often buried in sand, usually much branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent to glabrous.

decumbent to ascending, little to moderately branched, elongate, glandular-pubescent.

1–6 cm;

blade deltate-ovate to reniform, 2.2–4.8 × 2.7–5.2 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes slightly repand and undulate, surfaces glabrous or viscid-puberulent.

petiole 0.8–4 cm;

blade ovate to oblong-ovate, 2–5 × 1.5–3.5 cm, margins entire to ± sinuate and undulate, surfaces glandular-pubescent.

peduncle longer than subtending petiole;

bracts ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, thin, yellowish green, glandular-pubescent;

flowers 17–35.

peduncle longer than subtending petiole;

bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate, 4–9 × 1.8–6 mm, papery, puberulent to glandular-pubescent, often villous basally;

flowers 12–24.

tube yellowish green, 6.5–18 mm, limb yellow, 8–13 mm diam., lobes slightly to moderately reflexed.

tube rose red, at least basally, 10–20 mm, limb white to pink, 6–8 mm diam.

winged, ± rhombic in profile, attenuate at both ends, 8–15 × 6–14 mm, scarious;

wings 4–5, thin walled, small, cavities extending into wing.

winged, broadly cordate or ± round in profile, 4–6 × 4–6 mm, coriaceous, apex deeply notched with small beak;

wings 2(–3), infrequently partially folded together, without dilations, interior spongy.