Flora of North America species comparison

bifacial in stomatal distribution;

petiole 2–3 mm;

blade dull gray abaxially, dark green, ± shiny adaxially, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, (convex), 1–2 × 0.5–1.5 cm, base cuneate, margins (tinged with red), entire, ± cupped, abaxial surface smooth, densely gray-tomentose, adaxial surface smooth, sparsely puberulent.

petiole 5–10 mm;

blade bright green, slightly glaucous to strongly gray-glaucous, shiny or dull, elliptic to ovate, 2–4.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes ± lobed or truncate, margins entire or toothed, plane, surfaces papillate, scabrous or smooth, glabrous or glandular-puberulent to -hairy, puberulent, or finely tomentose, sometimes glabrescent; (abaxial surface sometimes with more stomata than adaxial surface).

racemes, simple or 1-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, axis 0.3–0.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., short gray-hairy;

bracts not appressed, scalelike (proximalmost leaflike), lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2–3 mm, apex acute to mucronate, surfaces hairy or glabrous.

panicles, 3–6-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded, not concealed by bracts), axis 1–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy to hairy, with or without glandular hairs;

bracts not appressed, variable, from scalelike and awl-like to leaflike and deltate, lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate (at least at base), 3–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces hairy or finely glandular-hairy.

3–4 mm, hairy.

3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy.

corolla white, urceolate;

ovary white-hairy or ± glabrous.

corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate;

ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular.

globose, 5–6 mm diam., sparsely hairy or glabrous.

slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid).

distinct.

usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate.

= 26.