Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, branched, 5–45 cm, hairy, glandular at least distally, rarely eglandular; small axillary tufts of leaves absent.

erect, simple or several from branched caudex, 15–30 cm, densely viscid-glandular; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent.

not marcescent, ± sessile;

blade 5–20(–30) × 2–8(–15) mm, apex apiculate, covered with spreading, white, long hairs;

basal with blade oblanceolate or obovate, narrowed proximally, sometimes spatulate;

cauline with blade broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate.

not marcescent, sessile;

blade broadly linear to linear lanceolate to oblong, 12–30(–50) × 3–10(–15) mm, apex usually acute, densely viscid-glandular.

3–50-flowered, aggregated into dense, cymose clusters or in more-open dichasia;

bracts: proximal herbaceous, distal lanceolate, apex acute, with long, mainly eglandular hairs.

dense, 3–30-flowered cymes;

bracts foliaceous, glandular-pubescent.

erect to spreading, often arcuate distally, 0.1–5 mm, shorter than capsule, glandular-pubescent.

erect, 2–10 mm, shorter than sepals, with dense, spreading, glandular pubescence.

sepals green, rarely dark-red tipped, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, margins narrow, apex very acute, usually with glandular hairs as well as long white hairs usually extending beyond apex;

petals oblanceolate, 3–5 mm, rarely absent, usually shorter than sepals, apex deeply 2-fid;

stamens 10;

styles 5.

sepals lanceolate, 6–11 mm, margins narrow, apex acute, pubescence dense, stout, shorter than sepal tips, viscid-glandular;

petals oblanceolate, 8–10 mm, ca. equaling sepals, apex shortly 2-fid;

stamens 5;

styles 5.

narrowly cylindric, curved, 7–10 mm;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

narrowly conic, straight, 10–15 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

pale brown, 0.5–0.6 mm, finely tuberculate;

testa inflated or not.

chestnut brown, ca. 1.3 mm, tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

= 72.

= 38.