Flora of North America species comparison

procumbent, pubescent in lines, glabrate.

procumbent or prostrate, glabrous.

sessile;

blade elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, 1.2–5 × 0.5–2.2 cm, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous.

sessile;

blade oblong, oblanceolate, obovate, or oval, 2–6 × 0.8–3 cm, succulent, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate, glabrous.

axillary, sessile;

heads white, subglobose or ovoid, 0.5–1.1 cm;

bracts keeled, ca. 1/2 as long as tepals.

axillary, sessile;

heads white to stramineous, globose to ovoid, 0.6–1 × 0.6–0.8 cm;

bracts about 1/2 as long as tepals.

tepals white, ovate to lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm, apex acuminate, hairs not barbed;

stamens 5;

anthers 3–5, globose;

pseudostaminodes subulate, margins laciniate.

tepals monomorphic, stramineous, striate, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, rigid margins coriaceous, apex acuminate, glabrous;

stamens 5;

anthers 5, oblong;

pseudostaminodes lanceolate, equaling or exceeding filaments, margins fimbriate.

lenticular, 0.9–1.1 mm.

subglobose, 1.5 mm.

included within tepals, sides exerted in mature fruit, greenish stramineous, obcordate, 1.3–1.7 mm, apex retuse.

included within tepals, stramineous, subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm, apex acute.