Flora of North America species comparison

erect, many-branched from base, 10–40 cm, minutely viscid-glandular; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent.

erect, simple or branched at base, 5.5–30 cm, shaggy, hairs silvery, spreading-ascending; small axillary tufts of leaves absent.

not marcescent, distal sessile, proximal spatulate;

blade linear or linear- lanceolate to linear-oblong, 10–30 × 1–4 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, glabrous or sparsely and minutely viscid-glandular.

not marces-cent;

blade 4–15(–20) × 1.5–5(–7) mm, pubescence of long, glandular and/or eglandular hairs;

basal ± crowded, blade oblanceolate, spatulate, apex obtuse;

cauline sessile, blade lanceolate or elliptic, apex acute.

lax, 3–21(–30)-flowered cymes;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, glandular-pubescent.

lax, dichasiate, 3–30-flowered cymes;

bracts herbaceous, lanceolate, densely pubescent, with long, ascending, glandular or eglandular hairs.

erect, slender, 2–15 mm, 0.5–3 times as long as sepals, glandular-puberulent Flowers: sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5–6 mm, margins narrow, apex acute to obtuse, minutely viscid-glandular;

petals oblanceolate, 5–8 mm, 1.5 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 10;

styles 3(–4).

erect or ascending, bent distally in fruit, 6–15 mm, longer than capsule, shaggy, glandular or eglandular.

sepals lanceolate, 4–4.5 mm, foliaceous, with or without narrow margins, densely pubescent, hairs exceeding sepal tips;

petals oblanceolate, 2–3 mm, ca. 0.5 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid, sparsely ciliate proximally;

stamens 10, with few long hairs near filament base;

styles 5.

oblong-ovoid, straight, 8–11 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 6, occasionally 8, erect to spreading, margins convolute.

cylindric, slightly curved near apex, 5–7 mm, ca. 1.5 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

pale brown, ovate, 0.6 mm diam., tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

pale brown, 0.5 mm diam., acutely tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

= 36, 38.

= 72 (Europe), 88, 90.