Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or spreading, arcuate, often rooting at distal nodes;

branchlets brown to grayish brown, rigid, puberulent, glabrescent.

not fascicled;

petiole 3–12 mm;

blade flat, elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 20–60 × 10–30 mm, base rounded or subcordate, margins entire, sometimes minutely glandular-denticulate above middle, glands 26–52, apex obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, appressed-puberulent, glabrescent, adaxial surface grayish green, dull, glabrate; 3-veined from base.

both fascicled and not on same plant, axillary short shoots erect;

petiole 1–2 mm;

blade folded lengthwise abaxially, elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 × 2–6 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, margins not revolute, entire or denticulate near apex, teeth 3–5, apex obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, glabrate or sparsely strigillose between the veins, adaxial surface green, glabrate.

axillary, usually paniclelike, sometimes racemelike, 3–6 cm.

terminal or axillary, 0.6–1.4 cm.

sepals, petals, and nectary usually white to cream, sometimes pink.

sepals and petals white to pale blue;

nectary blue.

4–5 mm wide, ± lobed;

valves rugose, viscid when young, not or weakly crested.

4–5 mm wide, usually not, sometimes weakly lobed;

valves smooth or slightly rugulose, sometimes ridged, horns absent or weakly developed bulges, intermediate ridges absent.

= 24.