Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, slender, wiry, usually many-branched, 5–15 cm.

proximalmost not clustered near base;

blade usually lanceolateto narrowly ovate, sometimes elliptic, 0.5–1.8 × 0.2–0.5 cm, base rounded, margins inconspicuously serrulate or with 1–several small teeth, apex acute.

opening near sunrise;

floral tube 1–2.2 mm, villous on proximal 1/2 inside;

sepals 1.2–4.2 mm, reflexed in pairs;

petals 2.2–7 mm, each usually with 0 or 2 red dots basally; episepalous filaments 2.4–3.2 mm, epipetalous filaments 1.2–2 mm, anthers 0.6–1.2 mm, pollen with less than 5% of grains 4- or 5-pored;

style 2.8–7 mm, stigma 0.6–0.8 mm diam., surround by, or slightly exserted beyond, anthers at anthesis.

20–30 × 0.5–0.7 mm;

subsessile.

0.8–1.6 × 0.4–0.6 mm.