Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, erect, ascending, or decumbent, (unbranched or branched distally), 0.5–3.5(–5) dm.

subsessile or (proximal) shortly petiolate;

blade usually narrowly oblanceolate to linear, sometimes spatulate or obovate, 3–4(–4.5) cm × (0.5–)1–3.5(–5) mm, base attenuate or cuneate, apex obtuse or acute.

sepals (persistent) oblong, (1.5–)2–3 × 0.7–1.1 mm, pubescent as pedicels;

petals (often persistent) white or pale yellow, usually linear to linear-oblanceolate, rarely obovate, 2–3(–4) × 0.3–0.7(–1) mm, apex emarginate, glabrous or sparsely stellate-pubescent abaxially;

filaments (slender) not appendaged, toothed, or winged, 1–1.5 mm;

anthers ovate, 0.15–0.2 mm.

divaricate or ascending, straight, slender, 2–5(–6) mm, trichomes stellate, with fewer, simple and forked ones.

orbicular, (2–)3–4(–5) mm diam., apex emarginate or truncate;

valves uniformly inflated at middle, strongly flattened at margins, sparsely stellate-pubescent;

ovules 2 per ovary;

style (slender), 0.3–0.6(–1) mm, basally stellate-pubescent or glabrous.

oblong to ovoid, compressed, 1.1–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, margins narrow, ca. 0.1 mm wide.

= 32.