Flora of North America species comparison

flowering stems ascending from elongate decumbent bases, branched, 15–45 cm, viscid, glandular in distal and mid-stem region, proximal portion with deflexed, long, soft, eglandular hairs, mostly in alternating longitudinal lines; nonflowering shoots horizontal, leafy.

decumbent or ascending, diffusely branched, 7.5–30 cm, densely covered and viscid with short, glandular hairs; small axillary tufts of leaves absent.

sometimes marces-cent, sessile, highly variable;

blade tending to be succulent, pubescent on both surfaces or ± glabrous abaxially except on midrib and margins;

leaves of mid and distal stem largest, blade ovate-lanceolata to linear-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 15–42 × 3.5–7 mm, apex acute;

proximal leaves smaller, with tufts of small leaves in their axils, blade oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 10–30 × 2–7 mm, often spatulate, apex ± obtuse.

not marcescent, sessile distally, spatulate to pseudopetiolate proximally;

blade 5–10 × 2–4 mm, covered with short, glandular and eglandular hairs;

proximal blades oblanceolate, apex obtuse;

cauline blades ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute.

lax, 1–12-flowered cymes;

bracts glandular-pubescent, proximal bract often foliaceous, broadly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate;

distal bracts lance-elliptic to lanceolate, margins narrow, scarious.

lax, 3–30-flowered cymes;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, herbaceous, glandular-pubescent.

straight or sometimes curving near apex in fruit, tending to be stout, 10–35 mm, ca. 2–4 times as long as capsules, rarely more, pubescence dense, glandular, viscid.

straight, ultimately erect in fruit, slender, 2–15 mm, much longer than capsule, glandular.

large and showy;

sepals lanceolate, 6–9 mm, margins broad, apex acute, densely glandular-pubescent, viscid;

petals broadly oblanceolate, large, 10–15 mm, 2–3 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 10;

anthers 0.9–1.2 mm;

styles 5.

4(–5)-merous;

sepals lanceolate, 4–7 mm, margins narrow distally, apex acute or acuminate, glandular-pubescent, hairs usually not projecting beyond apex;

petals ca. 3 mm, ca. 0.75 times as long as sepals, apex 2-fid;

stamens 4(–5);

styles 4(–5).

broadly cylindric, ca. straight, 8–15 × 4–5 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals;

teeth 10, erect, margins convolute.

narrowly cylindric, nearly straight, 5–7.5 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals;

teeth 8 or 10, erect, margins convolute.

reddish brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate;

testa not inflated, tightly enclosing seed.

reddish brown, 0.5–0.7 mm, bluntly tuberculate;

testa not inflated.

= 72.

= 72.