Flora of North America species comparison

thickened, woody;

crown, many-branched, woody;

rhizomes and trailing stems to 60 cm.

filiform.

ascending to erect, ± green, 2–20 cm, densely glandular-hairy throughout, internodes of flowering stems 0.2–2 times as long as leaves.

erect, green or reddish purple, (5–)8–20(–25) cm, glabrous, internodes of all stems 5–7 times as long as leaves.

tightly appressed to spreading, ± evenly spaced, connate proximally, with ± loose, scarious sheath 0.1–0.7 mm;

blade straight to recurved, ± green, flat, prominently 1-veined abaxially, broadly lanceolate to linear, 5–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, ± rigid, margins rounded, scarious in proximal 1/3–1/4, apex green to purple, acute to acuminate or spinescent, navicular with small mucro or spinescent, dull, stipitate-glandular;

axillary leaves present proximally to throughout.

not overlapping, connate proximally, with loose, scarious sheath 0.1–0.3 mm;

blade green or reddish purple, 3-veined proximally, midvein prominent abaxially, lateral veins 0.2–0.25 times as long as blade, straight to outwardly curved, flat, lance-attenuate to linear, 2–7(–9) × 0.5–1.2(–1.8) mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious proximally, smooth, apex green or purple, rounded to acute, often mucronate, shiny, glabrous;

axillary leaves occasionally present.

(3–)6–30-flowered, open cymes;

bracts lanceolate to subulate, usually scarious.

5–20-flowered, open cymes;

bracts subulate, herbaceous, often scarious-margined proximally.

0.2–2 cm, stipitate-glandular.

(0.7–)1–3(–3.5) cm, glabrous.

hypanthium disc-shaped;

sepals 1–3-veined, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate), 3–6(–7) mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex often purple, acute to acuminate or spinescent, not hooded, stipitate-glandular;

petals obovate, 0.5–1.6 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire.

hypanthium disc-shaped;

sepals strongly 3(–5)-veined, lance-linear to lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate to lance-oblong), 3.2–5.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green to purple, acute, not hooded, glabrous;

petals oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals, apex obtuse to rounded, entire.

on stipe ca. 0.1–0.2 mm, ovoid, 5 mm, usually shorter than sepals.

on stipe about 0.2 mm, ± ovoid, 3.5–5.8 mm, equaling or longer than sepals.

reddish brown to dark brown, oblong-elliptic with hilar notch on 1 end, 1.5–2.7 mm, tuberculate;

tubercles low-rounded.

brown or reddish, asymmetically reniform with radicle prolonged into beak, not compressed, 0.7–1 mm, minutely papillate.