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.

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, ± 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.

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.

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.

lax, 1–3-flowered terminal cymes;

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

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

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

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 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, 7–10 mm;

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.

pale brown, 0.5–0.6 mm, finely tuberculate;

testa inflated or not.

brown, 0.5 mm diam., shallowly rugose;

testa not inflated.

= 72.

= 38.