Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, branched, 4–6 dm, ± glandular-pubescent, white-villous.

prostrate to suberect, much-branched to ± simple, 0.1–4.5 dm, pilose with segmented (uniseriate) hairs and sessile or stipitate glandular hairs.

aromatic, distal leaves sessile;

petiole 2–2.5 mm;

blade lanceolate, 2–9 × 0.5–4 cm, base cuneate, margins of distal leaves shallowly dentate to sinuate-pinnatifid, apex acuminate, villous and copiously gland-dotted (rarely nearly glabrous).

malodorous;

petiole 0.3–1.5 cm;

blade narrowly to broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.5–2.7 × 0.3–1.5 cm, somewhat reduced in inflorescence, base cuneate, apex obtuse, glandular-pilose.

terminal and axillary spikes, 3–15 cm;

glomerules globose, 1.7–2.3 mm diam.;

bracts leaflike, narrowly ovate, 1–1.8 cm, apex acuminate.

lateral cymes or glomerules;

glomerules subglobose, 1.2–2.5 mm diam.;

bracts leaflike, 3–4.5 mm, elliptic, margins crenate-dentate, apex obtuse.

perianth segments 5, connate for ca. 1/2 their length, distinct portion ovate, 0.7–1 mm, apex obtuse, rounded abaxially, villous, covering fruit at maturity;

stamens 5;

stigmas 3.

perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base, distinct portions narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 0.6–0.7 × 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acute, normally rounded abaxially, usually glandular-pilosulose, becoming crustaceous and white in fruit;

stamens absent or 1;

stigmas 2.

ovoid;

pericarp nonadherent, glandular.

ovoid;

pericarp adherent, membranaceous, slightly rugose.

vertical, black, ovoid, 0.5–0.8 × 0.8 mm;

seed coat smooth.

reddish brown, ovoid, 0.5–0.7 × 0.5–0.6 mm, margins keeled or rounded;

seed coat smooth.