Flora of North America species comparison

petiole to 1.5 mm;

blade light green abaxially, shiny dark green adaxially, oblanceolate to obovate, 2–4 × 1–2 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire (scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and ciliate, 7–10 cilia per mm), apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate, surfaces persistently stipitate-glandular-hairy and sessile-glandular.

persistent;

petiole 0.5–3 mm;

blade pale green abaxially, shiny dark green adaxially, ovate, 1–2.5 × 0.5–1.3 cm, coriaceous, base rounded, margins crenate or serrulate, (revolute), apex obtuse, without resinous dots, surfaces glabrous adaxially, glabrous or puberulent along midvein and near blade base.

erect or arching, 3–7-flowered, bracteate, 2–5 cm, stipitate-glandular-hairy and hairy;

bracts persistent, leaflike, 2–5 mm, expanding to 5–10 mm, longer than pedicels, densely stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm).

spreading, 2–5-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, ebracteate, 0.5–1 cm, puberulent.

2–4 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracteoles 1–2, 2–5 mm.

0.5–3 mm, glabrous;

bracteoles (early deciduous), 1–3, (ovate), 2–4 mm, (margins ciliate).

sepals 5, 2 mm, densely stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm);

petals 5, corolla white to pink or reddish, campanulate, 6.5–7.5 mm (averaging 7 mm), lobes triangular, 1.2–1.7 mm;

filaments 0.3–0.5 mm, moderately hairy;

anthers included, 3.2–4 mm (averaging 3.7 mm), thecae divergent distally;

ovary stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm).

sepals 4–5, 0.3–0.5 mm, glabrous;

petals 4–5, corolla white to pink, campanulate-urceolate, 4 mm, lobes broadly deltate to rounded, 0.5–1.5 mm;

filaments 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers included, 1–1.5 mm, thecae not divergent distally;

ovary glabrous.

juicy, insipid, black, 6–8 mm diam., moderately glandular-hairy.

juicy, sweet, light blue, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous.

1.7–2 mm.

1–1.5 mm.