Flora of North America species comparison

erect to more often spreading, usually branched from base, 1–1.4(–6) dm, densely farinose.

erect, branched, 4.5–10 dm, glabrous to sparsely farinose.

nonaromatic;

petiole 0.3–0.4 cm;

blade linear, narrowly lanceolate, oblong elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate, 3- (occasionally 1-)veined, 1.5–2.5 × 0.4–0.6 cm, 3–many times as long as wide, thick and somewhat fleshy, base cuneate, margins entire, unlobed, apex acuminate, densely white-farinose abaxially, more sparsely farinose adaxially.

nonaromatic, sessile;

proximal blades oblong-ovate to ovate lanceolate, 1.7–3.6 × 1–2.8 cm, base cuneate, margins finely serrate;

distal blades tending toward lanceolate and margins entire, apex obtuse, farinose.

glomerules in terminal and axillary panicles;

glomerules ± densely packed, flowers maturing irregularly;

bracts leaflike or absent.

glomerules in terminal moniliform spikes, 1–3 cm;

glomerules globose, 1.8–2 mm diam.;

bracts absent.

perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base;

lobes obovate, 0.8–1 mm, apex obtuse, carinate, densely farinose, enclosing fruit at maturity;

stamens 5;

stigmas 2, 0.1 mm.

perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base;

lobes ovate, 0.5–0.7 × 0.6–0.7 mm, apex rounded, farinose, slightly keeled, reflexed and exposing fruit at maturity;

stamens 5;

stigmas 2, 0.2 mm.

depressed-ovoid;

pericarp adherent, smooth.

ovoid, 8–1.1 mm diam., margins rounded;

seed coat black, warty.

lenticular, oval, 0.9–1.5 mm diam.;

seed coat black, smooth, margins rounded.

ovoid;

pericarp nonadherent, smooth.

= 18.

= 36.