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.

petiole 2–3 mm;

blade glaucous abaxially, dull green to yellowish green adaxially, ovate to oblong, 2.5–4 × 1–2 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short-hairy (longer hairs ca. 0.1 mm) and sessile-glandular abaxially.

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).

drooping, 2–4-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate, 1–2.5 cm, glabrous or pilose;

bracts early-deciduous, leaflike or not, 5–6 mm, shorter than pedicels, glabrous, sessile-glandular.

2–4 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracteoles 1–2, 2–5 mm.

8–15(–20) mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular;

bracteoles 1–2, 1–2.5 mm.

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 5, (glaucous), 1–1.2 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular or not;

petals 5, corolla greenish white, campanulate-conic, 3–5 mm, lobes deltate, ca. 1 mm;

filaments 0.5–1 mm, ciliate;

anthers included (tips barely exserted), 2.5 mm, thecae not divergent distally;

ovary glabrous.

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

juicy, sweet, dark blue, sometimes black, rarely white, glaucous, 5–8 mm diam., glabrous.

1.7–2 mm.

1.5 mm.