Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending or decumbent, branched from base, 1.5–10 dm, glabrous.

erect or occasionally semierect, usually branching from base, 1–4 dm, farinose to densely farinose.

non-aromatic;

petiole 1.5–10 cm;

blade lanceolate, ovate, triangular, or triangular-hastate, 2.5–10 × 1–9 cm, base cuneate, truncate, or hastate, margins sharply dentate or entire, apex acute to acuminate.

nonaromatic;

petiole to 0.5 cm;

blade linear, 1-veined, 0.7–2.6(–3) × 0.1–0.3 cm, usually somewhat fleshy, base cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse, densely farinose abaxially.

glomerules sessile on unbranched terminal spikes;

spikes 5–20 cm;

glomerules globose, 3–10 mm diam.;

bracts leaflike, present only at base of inflorescence;

flowers maturing from apex to base.

glomerules in terminal and axillary panicle;

glomerules widely spaced, maturing irregularly;

bracts leaflike in proximal part of inflorescence and linear to 2 × 0.1 mm on terminal branches.

perianth segments 3, connate only at base, lobes lanceolate to ovate, 0.6–0.9 × 0.4–0.5 mm, apex acute, not keeled, glabrous, covering fruit at maturity, often becoming fleshy and red in fruit;

stamens 3;

stigmas 2, 0.1–0.4 mm.

perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base;

lobes lanceolate to elliptic, 0.8–1 × 0.5–0.6 mm, apex obtuse to rounded, prominently keeled abaxially, densely farinose, covering fruit at maturity;

stamens 5;

stigmas 2, 0.1 mm.

ovoid, fleshy or not;

pericarp adherent, bright red to dark reddish brown or greenish red, smooth.

ovoid;

pericarp adherent, smooth.

0.7–1.2 mm in diam., margins rounded;

seed coat black, reticulate-punctate.

ovoid, 0.9–1.1 mm diam., margins round;

seed coat black, finely rugulate.

= 18.

= 18.