Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, decumbent to prostrate or, sometimes, ascending, (unbranched), (0.3–)0.5–0.9(–1.4) dm.

blade spatulate to linear-spatulate, (0.5–)1–3(–4) cm × 1–4 mm, base (membranous), broadly expanded near point of attachment, margins entire, (ciliate, trichomes long, mostly simple), apex obtuse, often with tuft of hairs.

0 or 1 (or a leaflike bract subtending proximalmost pedicel).

sepals 2–3.5 × 1–2 mm;

petals white to purplish, (narrowly spatulate), 2–3.7 × 1–1.5 mm, (claw and blade not differentiated), apex rounded;

filaments 2–2.5(–3) mm;

anthers ovoid, 0.4–0.6 mm.

divaricate to erect, 1.5–4 mm.

ovoid to globose, not torulose, (0.4–)0.5–0.8(–1) cm × (2.5–)3–5 mm;

valves densely pubescent or glabrous, trichomes 2-forked and simple;

septum margin not expanded, or not basally;

ovules 16–30 per ovary;

style obsolete to 0.7(–1) mm;

stigma strongly 2-lobed or entire.

biseriate, oblong, (1.1–)1.2–1.4(–1.5) × (0.5–)0.7–0.8(–1) mm.