Flora of North America species comparison

erect or procumbent;

twigs glabrous or hairy.

repent, 10–14 cm, densely strigose.

persistent, aromatic;

blade ovate, elliptic, or orbiculate to subcordate or reniform, coriaceous, margins serrate, crenate, or ciliate, plane or revolute, surfaces glabrous or hairy;

venation reticulodromous or brochidodromous.

blades elliptic to oval, 0.3–1 cm, base cuneate to rounded, margins ciliate, (slightly revolute), apex acute, abaxial surface strigose, adaxial glabrous.

axillary, racemes, 2–12-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary; (bracteoles closely subtending flowers).

axillary, solitary flowers;

bracts light green, broadly lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm, exceeding sepals, sparsely strigose.

light green, 1.5–3 mm, strigose;

bracteoles absent.

sepals (4–)5, connate basally to nearly their entire lengths, (sometimes exceeding petals), ovate, deltate, or cordate;

petals (4–)5, connate ca. 1/2 to nearly their entire lengths, white or cream to pink, corolla urceolate to campanulate, lobes much shorter than tube;

stamens 8 or 10, included, (inserted at base of ovary);

filaments straight, flattened, usually widest proximally, glabrous or hairy, sometimes papillose, without spurs;

anthers with 2–4 awns or without awns, dehiscent by pores with ventral slits, (white disintegration tissue present dorsally along connective);

pistil 4–5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular;

stigma truncate or capitate.

sepals 4, connate ca. 1/2 their lengths, white, ovate, 1–1.5 mm, hairy basally (hairs dark red);

petals 4, connate 1/3 their lengths, white, 2–3.5 mm, glabrous, corolla campanulate, lobes 1.5–2 mm;

filaments broadest in middle and narrowing distally and proximally, glabrous;

anthers with 2 bifurcating awns, dehiscent by subterminal pores.

capsular, 5-valved, globose, fleshy, (surrounded by persistent, fleshy calyx).

white, 2.5–6 mm wide.

20–80+, ovoid;

testa smooth.

= 11, 12, 13.

= 22.