Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, branched, 30–80(–110) cm, strigillose or glabrescent, sharply angled.

usually prostrate, occasionally with ascending tips, often mat-forming, not rooting at nodes, 5–45 cm, densely and evenly short-sericeous to sericeous or villous.

usually alternate, sometimes some opposite;

stipules usually 0.2–0.5 mm, rarely rudimentary;

petiole 0.4–5.9 mm, strigillose;

blade ovate, elliptic, linear-elliptic, or oblong, 10–83 × 3–39 mm, base attenuate, rounded, or cuneate, margins entire, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces strigillose;

venation occasionally obscure on narrow leaves, midvein conspicuous.

opposite;

stipules distinct, linear-subulate, sometimes irregularly 2–3-lobed, 1–1.3 mm, sparsely short-sericeous to sericeous or villous;

petiole 0.5–1.5 mm, moderately short-sericeous to sericeous or villous;

blade oblong-ovate to ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4–18 × 2.5–8 mm, base strongly asymmetric, one side usually angled and other ± truncate and expanded into small, rounded auricle, margins serrulate (longer side) or subentire (shorter side), apex rounded or broadly acute, abaxial surface pale grayish green, moderately to densely lanulose to villous, adaxial surface usually with irregular reddish streak along midvein, glabrate or with sparse, long, slender hairs; palmately veined at base, pinnate distally.

campanulate or obconic, 1–1.8 × 0.8–1.7 mm, glabrous or strigillose toward rim;

glands (1–)2–4, yellow to greenish, elliptic or oblong, 0.1–0.3 × 0.2–0.4 mm;

appendages white to tinged purple, ovate and often hoodlike or forming narrow rim around distal margin of gland, 0.3–1.6 × 0.4–0.9 mm, entire.

obconic, 0.8–1 × 0.6–0.8 mm, sparsely strigose to short-sericeous;

glands 4, green to yellow-green, turning pink with age, usually ± unequal, narrowly oblong to nearly linear, 0.1–0.2 × 0.2–0.5 mm;

appendages white to reddish tinged, lunate to oblong, 0.1–0.3 × 0.2–1.5 mm, distal margin crenulate.

30–40.

2–5.

ovary glabrous;

styles 0.7–1 mm, 2-fid from 1/2 to nearly entire length.

ovary sericeous;

styles 0.3–0.4 mm, 2-fid at apex.

ovoid-oblate, 2.5–3 × 3–3.5 mm, glabrous;

columella 1.6–1.9 mm.

ovoid, well exserted from involucre at maturity, 1.3–1.5 × 1.2–1.4 mm, sparsely to moderately and evenly sericeous;

columella 1–1.2 mm.

gray, brown, or nearly black, ovoid, circular or weakly angled in cross section, 1.5–1.7 × 1.3–1.5 mm, coarsely tuberculate with longitudinal rows of shallow pits;

caruncle absent or punctiform, 0.1–0.2 mm.

white to light brown, oblong-ovoid, sharply angular in cross section, 1–1.2 × 0.6–0.9 mm, with 3–4 low, transverse ridges that cross angles.

in usually terminal, rarely axillary, dichasia, distal dichasial bracts often white;

peduncle 0.4–4.5 mm (to 15 mm at first node of inflorescence), glabrous.

solitary or in small, cymose clusters at distal nodes or on congested, axillary branches;

peduncle 0.1–0.6 mm.

= 28.