Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to decumbent or prostrate.

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.

persistent, opposite;

petiole absent;

blade acicular (ericoid), abaxial groove present or not.

axillary, solitary flowers;

perulae absent; (bracteoles shorter than sepals).

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.

pendulous;

sepals (4-)5;

petals (4-)5, connate, corolla deciduous, campanulate or cylindric, lobes much shorter than tube;

intrastaminal nectary disc absent;

stamens (8-)10;

anthers dehiscent by terminal, slitlike pores;

ovary (4-)5-locular;

placentation axile;

style straight.

capsular, dehiscence loculicidal.

1.5–4 mm.

1-10, distinct, ellipsoid to ovoid, not winged.