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, many-branched from base, 10–40 cm, minutely 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, 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.

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, 3–21(–30)-flowered cymes;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, glandular-pubescent.

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

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).

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.

narrowly cylindric, curved, 7–10 mm;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

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

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

pale brown, 0.5–0.6 mm, finely tuberculate;

testa inflated or not.

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

testa not inflated.

= 72.

= 36, 38.