Flora of North America species comparison

flowering stems erect from decumbent base, branched proximally, 10–45 cm, softly pubescent, eglandular with straight hairs; nonflowering shoots, when present, produced proximally, decumbent, rooting at nodes, branched, 5–20 cm, often subglabrous with alternating lines of eglandular hairs; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent.

creeping, much-branched, rooting, glabrous except for line of small hairs down each internode; flowering shoots decumbent or ascending, 5–10 cm; nonflowering shoots prostrate, 5–15 cm; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent.

not marcescent;

blade 10–25(–40) × 3–8(–12) mm, densely covered with patent to ascending, colorless, long, eglandular hairs;

leaves of flowering shoots in distant pairs, sessile, blade elliptic to ovate-oblong, apex subacute;

leaves of sterile shoots pseudopetiolate, often spatulate, blade oblanceolate, apex obtuse.

sessile, tending to be marcescent, somewhat succulent;

blade elliptic-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 2–12 × 1–3 mm, apex obtuse, rarely acute, glabrous, sometimes ciliate at base.

lax, 3–50-flowered cymes;

bracts lanceolate, reduced, herbaceous, eglandular-pubescent, distal often with narrow, scarious margins.

lax, 1–3-flowered terminal cymes;

bracts lanceolate, 2–5 mm, glabrous or ciliate.

somewhat curved distally, 2–10(–20) mm, longer than sepals, densely pubescent with patent, eglandular, rarely glandular hairs.

becoming curved, slender, 5–35 mm, equaling or exceeding sepals, glandular-puberulent.

sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5–7 mm, margins narrow, apex acute, scarious, pubescent with eglandular, rarely glandular, hairs;

petals oblanceolate, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals, apex deeply 2-fid;

stamens 10, occasionally 5;

styles 5.

sepals narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm, margins narrow, midrib present, apex obtuse, glandular-pubescent towards base;

petals 5–8 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals, apex deeply 2-fid;

stamens 10;

styles 3(–6).

narrowly cylindric, curved, 9–17 mm, ca. 2 times sepals;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

ovoid-conic, oblong after dehiscence, straight, 7–10 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 6(–12), erect to spreading, margins convolute.

reddish brown, 0.4–1.2 mm, bluntly tuberculate;

testa not inflated, tightly enclosing seed.

brown, 0.5 mm diam., shallowly rugose;

testa not inflated.

= 122–152, usually 144.

= 38.