Flora of North America species comparison

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.

erect, usually unbranched, occasionally few branched distally, solitary or few, previous year's dead stems not persistent, 30–65 cm, usually glabrous, rarely villous.

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.

alternate;

stipules 1 mm;

petiole (0–)1–2(–10) mm, glabrous or densely villous;

blade lanceolate, lance-ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 40–68 × 6–18 mm, often reflexed, base cuneate to rounded, margins entire, apex usually rounded, sometimes broadly acute, abaxial surface glabrous or villous, adaxial surface usually glabrous, rarely sparsely villous;

venation occasionally obscure on small leaves, midvein conspicuous.

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.

campanulate or hemispheric, 1.3–1.7 × 1.8–2.2 mm, glabrous or villous;

glands 5 (7–10 on central cyathium), green, reniform or broadly elliptic, 0.3–0.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm;

appendages white, orbiculate or narrowly flabellate, 1–2.2 × 1.5 mm, entire.

2–5.

20–25.

ovary sericeous;

styles 0.3–0.4 mm, 2-fid at apex.

ovary glabrous or sparsely villous;

styles 0.6–1.1 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length.

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.

globose, 2–2.4 × 3.3–4.8 mm, glabrous or sparsely villous;

columella 1.8–2.1 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.

light gray, ovoid, 2.2–2.4 × 1.6–1.8 mm, with shallow depressions;

caruncle absent.

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

peduncle 0.1–0.6 mm.

in terminal pleiochasia;

peduncle 1–5 mm (or 15–40 mm on early flowering individuals), usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely villous.

= 28.