Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or erect, glabrous or slightly hairy.

prostrate, 15–60 cm, hairy, sometimes sparsely so, glabrescent.

cauline, opposite [whorled];

petiole obscure or absent;

blade fleshy (B. monnieri) or not, not leathery, margins entire, crenate, or serrate.

hairy;

blade base broadly cuneate, margins entire, apex ± rounded.

axillary, flowers solitary or in pairs;

bracts absent.

present or absent;

bracteoles present [absent].

9–15 mm.

bisexual;

sepals 4 or 5, distinct, outer wider than inner, ovate, lanceolate, or oblong, calyx radially or bilaterally symmetric, campanulate;

corolla white (sometimes with yellow throat), pink, or violet-blue, radially or bilaterally (B. repens) symmetric, regular or weakly bilabiate, rotate or campanulate, rarely tubular, tube base not spurred or gibbous, throat not densely pilose internally, lobes 4 or 5, abaxial 2 or 3, adaxial 2;

stamens 2–4, adnate to corolla, didynamous or equal, filaments glabrous;

staminode 0;

ovary 2-locular, placentation axile;

stigmas peltately flattened and semicapitate.

sepals 5, ovate to oblong, calyx bilaterally symmetric;

corolla white with yellow throat, 5–10 mm;

stamens 2–4, equal.

capsules, dehiscence septicidal-loculicidal or loculicidal.

80–120, brownish black, ellipsoid to cylindric, reticulate, wings absent.

= 56.