Flora of North America species comparison

erect, simple to loosely clustered, terete, 15–95 cm, simple to well branched, densely strigillose, often mixed glandular puberulent on inflorescence, rarely with faint strigillose lines decurrent from margins of petioles.

decumbent, often matted, grayish green, terete, 5–25 cm, well-branched throughout, densely white-canescent proximally, mixed strigillose, villous, and glandular puberulent distally.

opposite proximally, usually alternate, rarely fasciculate distally, subsessile;

blade linear to very narrowly elliptic or sublanceolate, 2–7.5 × 0.1–0.7 cm, usually longer than internodes, base rounded to subcuneate, margins subentire, 4–7 inconspicuous teeth per side, sometimes revolute, lateral veins inconspicuous, apex obtuse proximally to acute distally, both surfaces densely strigillose, increasing distally;

bracts not much reduced.

densely spaced, opposite proximal to inflorescence, alternate or fasciculate distally, petiole 0–2 mm, blade grayish green to green, lanceolate or elliptic to narrowly ovate, 1–3.5(–4) × 0.4–1.1 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margins subentire to low-denticulate, 5–8 teeth per side, veins inconspicuous, 3–5 per side, apex acute, sometimes with caducous dark mucro, surfaces densely white-canescent and eglandular proximally, changing abruptly on inflorescence to glandular puberulent mixed with scattered villous;

bracts somewhat reduced.

erect racemes, densely strigillose, often mixed sparsely glandular puberulent.

ascending spikes or racemes, densely glandular puberulent.

erect;

buds 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm;

pedicel 5–12 mm;

floral tube 0.8–1.5 × 1.2–1.8 mm, ring of spreading hairs at mouth inside;

sepals 2.5–4.5 × 0.9–1.3 mm, abaxial surface strigillose;

petals obcordate, white to light pink, 3.5–7 × 1.6–4 mm, apical notch 1–1.8 mm;

filaments white or cream, those of longer stamens 0.8–3.5 mm, those of shorter ones 0.6–2.5 mm;

anthers cream, 0.5–0.9 × 0.4–0.6 mm;

ovary 12–18 mm, densely strigillose, sometimes mixed glandular puberulent;

style cream, 2–3.8 mm, stigma narrowly clavate, entire, 1–1.8 × 0.5–1.2 mm, usually surrounded by, rarely exserted beyond, anthers.

buds 12–15 × 4–5.5 mm, subsessile or pedicels 1–2 mm;

floral tube same color as petals, 17–23 × 3.5–5 mm, with ring of scales 4–5 mm from base inside;

sepals same color as petals, 7–12 × 2.5–3.5 mm;

petals red-orange, 8–14 × 5–6.5 mm, apical notch 1.8–2.4 mm;

filaments orange or red, those of longer stamens 15–17 mm, those of shorter ones 13–15 mm;

anthers 2.8–3.2 × 0.7–1 mm;

ovary 5–11 mm, glandular puberulent;

style light orange, 40–45 mm, stigma 4-lobed, 0.9–1.1 × 2.2–2.6 mm, exserted 8–10 mm beyond anthers.

straight, narrowly cylindrical, 35–80 mm, surfaces densely strigillose;

pedicel 10–35 mm.

± straight, 20–26 mm, ± beaked, surfaces glandular puberulent;

sessile or pedicel 1–3 mm.

narrowly fusiform to narrowly obovoid, 1.5–2.2 ×0.5–0.7 mm, chalazal collar 0.1–0.2 mm, ± pronounced, surface papillose;

coma persistent, dingy white, 6–8 mm.

broadly to narrowly obovoid, with constriction 0.7–0.8 mm from micropylar end, 1.8–2.4 × 1.1–1.3 mm, chalazal collar inconspicuous, light brown, surface low-papillose;

coma easily detached, dingy white, 6–7 mm.

= 36.

= 30.