Flora of North America species comparison

spreading or ascending to erect, forming dense mats, puberulent, glandular-hairy, or glabrous.

decumbent to prostrate, spreading, ascending, or erect, mat-forming, glabrous or hairy.

imbricate, somewhat appressed to leaf above, usually 4-ranked;

blade ovate-lanceolate, abaxial groove absent, 3–4.5 × 1–1.5 mm, margins thin but not scarious, without curled hairs at leaf tips, surfaces glabrous to glandular-hairy or sparsely hairy.

blade canoe-shaped, without abaxial groove, or dorsiventrally expanded by marginal outgrowths forming abaxial groove, margins entire, thin or scarious, surfaces glabrous or glandular or hairy.

erect with deflexed tip at anthesis, elongating (or not) and straight in fruit;

bracteoles absent.

sepals 2–3 mm, margins entire or erose;

petals connate to 1/3 their lengths, tips recurved, corolla white, campanulate, 5–8 mm;

stamens to 3 mm.

sepals ± distinct, oblong-ovate;

filaments not enlarged at base;

anthers with awns;

ovary subglobose to ovoid;

style cylindric;

stigma capitate.

1.5–4 mm.

borne on erect pedicels, subglobose to ovoid.

= 13.