Flora of North America species comparison

flowering shoots often decumbent proximally, 5–20(–30) cm, glandular-pubescent distally, pilose-subglabrous, deflexed or spreading proximally;

non-flowering shoots present; small tufts of leaves present in axils of proximal leaves.

decumbent or ascending, diffusely branched, 7.5–30 cm, densely covered and viscid with short, glandular hairs; small axillary tufts of leaves absent.

not marcescent, sessile, ± spatulate proximally;

blade linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 4–30 × 0.5–6 mm, apex acute, rarely obtuse, subglabrous to softly pubescent, sometimes glandular.

not marcescent, sessile distally, spatulate to pseudopetiolate proximally;

blade 5–10 × 2–4 mm, covered with short, glandular and eglandular hairs;

proximal blades oblanceolate, apex obtuse;

cauline blades ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute.

lax, 1–20-flowered cymes, pubescence short, glandular;

bracts lanceolate, margins narrow, scarious, glandular-pubescent.

lax, 3–30-flowered cymes;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, herbaceous, glandular-pubescent.

curved just below calyx, 5–30 mm, 1–6 times as long as sepals, glandular-pubescent.

straight, ultimately erect in fruit, slender, 2–15 mm, much longer than capsule, glandular.

sepals narrowly lanceolate to lance-elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, margins narrow, softly pubescent;

petals obovate, 7.5–12.5 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 10;

anthers 0.8–1.1 mm;

styles 5.

4(–5)-merous;

sepals lanceolate, 4–7 mm, margins narrow distally, apex acute or acuminate, glandular-pubescent, hairs usually not projecting beyond apex;

petals ca. 3 mm, ca. 0.75 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 4(–5);

styles 4(–5).

cylindric, curved, 7.5–11.5 × 2.5–4 mm, (1–)1.5–2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

narrowly cylindric, nearly straight, 5–7.5 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals;

teeth 8 or 10, erect, margins convolute.

brown, 0.6–1.2 mm diam., tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

reddish brown, 0.5–0.7 mm, bluntly tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

= 36, 72, (108, Europe).

= 72.