Flora of North America species comparison

to 40 cm, hirsute to sericeous; usually leafy at anthesis.

decumbent to erect, seldom, if ever, mat-forming, glabrate or hirsute to ± sericeous.

petioles 0.5–2 mm;

blade elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 × 1–4 mm, surfaces hirsute to ± sericeous.

petiolate or sessile;

blade usually elliptic, lanceolate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes scalelike, 1–10 mm, surfaces glabrous or hirsute to ± sericeous.

bracteoles ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2–3 × 1 mm.

flowers usually solitary, sometimes distally clustered, bracteolate.

sepals: outer elliptic or obovate, 3–4 × 2.5–3 mm, inner obovate, 3–4.5 × 2–3 mm;

corolla 5–6.5 mm, tube 3–3.5 mm.

sepals elliptic, oblong, obovate, or ovate, 3–6 mm;

corolla white [rose], salverform, 5–7 mm, limb 5-lobed, lobes spreading to reflexed, ovate;

styles 2, distinct;

stigmas capitate.

capsular, ovoid, dehiscence valvate.

5–6 mm.

3–4 mm.

1(–2)[–4], ovoid, glabrous, surfaces smooth or reticulate.

= 14.

= 28.