Flora of North America species comparison

thickened, woody;

crown, many-branched, woody;

rhizomes and trailing stems to 60 cm.

threadlike.

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

spreading to erect, green, 1–5 cm, glabrous, internodes of all stems 2–10 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, irregularly spaced, connate proximally, with loose, mostly herbaceous sheath 0.2–0.3 mm;

blade ascending to widely spreading, green, concave proximally, flat distally, obscurely 1-veined, awl-shaped to lanceolate, 1.5–5 × 0.2–1.5 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious throughout or proximally, smooth, apex green or purple, acute to obtuse, flat to navicular, often shiny, glabrous;

axillary leaves absent.

(3–)6–30-flowered, open cymes;

bracts lanceolate to subulate, usually scarious.

2–9-flowered, open cymes;

bracts subulate, herbaceous, margins scarious proximally.

0.2–2 cm, stipitate-glandular.

0.1–0.5 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 1-veined, or weakly 3-veined in proximal 1/5, ovate to lanceolate (herbaceous portion lanceolate to narrowly so), 1.5–3.5 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green or purple, acute to acuminate, not hooded, glabrous;

petals narrowly lanceolate, 0.5–1 times as long as sepals, apex narrowly acute, entire, or absent.

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

on stipe ca. 0.1 mm, ± ovoid, ca. 3 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, 0.5–0.6 mm, minutely papillate.