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.

loosely ascending to suberect, branched, very leafy, 10–15 cm, pubescence short, dense, 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.

tending to be marcescent, sessile but spatulate proximally;

blade elliptic-oblong, 5–14 × 1.5–3.5 mm, apex obtuse, densely glandular-hirsute.

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 cymes;

bracts ovate-lanceolate, margins very narrow, scarious, glandular-pubescent.

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

mostly erect, slender, 10–25 mm, 1–4 times as long as sepals, densely glandular-pubescent.

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 ovate-oblong, 5.5–6.5 mm, elongating to 6–7 mm in fruit, margins broad, apex obtuse, glandular-pubescent;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, 7–10 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 10;

styles 5.

narrowly cylindric, curved, 7–10 mm;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

ovate-cylindric, ca. straight, short, broad, 9–13 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, erect or partially spreading, margins convolute.

pale brown, 0.5–0.6 mm, finely tuberculate;

testa inflated or not.

brown, 1.3–1.7 mm diam., with prominent papillae around margins and rows of small, transverse ridges on sides;

testa inflated, loose (rubs off when rolled between finger and thumb).

= 72.

= 108.