Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 0.5–1.5 mm;

blade light green abaxially, shiny dark green adaxially, oblanceolate to obovate, 2.5–4 × 0.3–1 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, (scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and ciliate, 2–5 cilia per mm), apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate, surfaces scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and sessile-glandular, adaxial surface sometimes glabrescent.

petiole 2–3 mm;

blade greenish white, glaucescent abaxially, green to yellowish green, dull green adaxially, ovate to oblong, 2.5–5(–6) × 2–3 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces short-hairy (hairs white) or glabrous, sessile-glandular abaxially.

erect or arching, 5–8-flowered, bracteate, 3–6 cm, stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracts persistent, leaflike, expanding to 5–12 mm, equaling or longer than pedicels, hairy and stipitate-glandular-hairy.

drooping, 2–4-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate, 1–4.5 cm, glabrous or pilose;

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

2–3 mm, hairy and stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracteoles 1–2, 2–5 mm.

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

bracteoles 1–2, 1–2.5 mm, (sessile-glandular).

sepals 5, 2 mm, sparsely to moderately hairy (hairs 0.2–0.3 mm) and stipitate-glandular-hairy;

petals 5, corolla white to pink, sometimes reddish, campanulate, 3–5 mm, lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm;

filaments 0.3–0.5 mm, sparsely hairy;

anthers included, 3–3.5 mm, thecae divergent distally;

ovary stipitate-glandular-hairy, hairs 0.2–0.3 mm.

sepals 5, 1–1.2 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular;

petals 5, corolla greenish white, campanulate-conic, 3–5 mm, lobes deltate, 1–1.4 mm;

filaments 0.5–1 mm, pilose;

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

ovary glabrous.

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

juicy, sweet, blue (sometimes black, rarely white), glaucescent, 5–8 mm diam., glabrous.

1.5–1.8 mm.

1.5 mm.