Flora of North America species comparison

filiform to somewhat thickened.

erect to widely spreading, green or purple, 4–30 cm, stipitate-glandular distally, internodes of all stems 1–5 times as long as leaves.

sometimes overlapping proximally, ± evenly spaced, connate proximally, with loose, scarious sheath 0.3–0.7 mm;

blade straight to variously curved or coiled, green or purple, concave, 1–3 veined, linear, 5–40 × 0.2–0.4 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, often scarious, sometimes ciliate or stipitate-glandular, apex green to purple, acute, navicular, dull, glabrous to stipitate-glandular;

axillary leaves present proximally.

7–15+-flowered, open cymes;

bracts subulate, scarious.

0.2–4 cm, stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium disc-shaped;

sepals 1(–3)-veined, midvein often more prominent than lateral veins, ± ovate (herbaceous portion lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate to narrowly ovate), 2.5–3.7 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex often purple, obtuse to acute, not hooded, stipitate-glandular at least proximally;

petals ovate, (1–)1.7–2.1 times as long as sepals, apex broadly rounded, entire or irregularly dentate.

on stipe 0.3–0.5 mm, broadly ovoid, 4 mm, longer than sepals.

reddish brown, winged, orbiculate with radicle not prolonged, compressed, 1.3–2 mm, tuberculate;

tubercles low, elongate.