Flora of North America species comparison

0.1–1 m, internodes sometimes relatively long.

sprawling or procumbent, branched.

blades deflexed in fruit, elliptic-spatulate, 2–6(–10) mm, fleshy.

alternate, (subopposite immediately proximal to flowers), petiolate [sessile];

blade ([membranous] fleshy), margins entire.

axillary, solitary flowers.

calyx 5–10 mm;

corolla 5–15 mm.

5-merous, usually bilaterally symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, tubular-obconic to campanulate, lobes 5, lanceolate;

corolla white, white with blue to violet limb, blue, or violet [yellow], ± bilateral, funnelform [salverform or tubular], lobes rounded;

stamens 4, inserted in abaxial 1/2 of corolla tube, didynamous plus 5th smaller, sterile filament;

anthers oblong, ventrifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits;

ovary 2-carpellate;

style (not exserted), sigmoidally curved, proximally slender, distally expanded;

stigma 2-lobed [capitate].

capsules, hemispheric, (2-valved).

3–5 mm, calyx associated with developing fruit.

pale brown, 0.5–0.8 mm.

(130–1200), ovoid [spheric to subreniform] (foveolate-reticulate).

= 9.