Flora of North America species comparison

filiform to somewhat thickened;

rhizomes absent.

ascending to erect, green, 2–8(–18) cm, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular (very rarely glabrous), internodes of stems 1–10 times as long as leaves; trailing stems absent.

overlapping, ± tightly, distally (cauline), concentrated proximally (cauline), connate proximally, with often loose, usually scarious sheath 0.2–0.7 mm;

blade ± straight or outwardly curved, green, flat to 3-angled, prominently 3-veined abaxially, subulate, 1.5–10 × 0.3–1.3 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, scarious, smooth, apex green or purple, acute to apiculate, often navicular, shiny, sparsely to densely ciliate, often stipitate-glandular;

axillary leaves present among vegetative leaves.

3–7+-flowered, open cymes or rarely flower solitary, terminal;

bracts broadly subulate to narrowly lanceolate, herbaceous, margins scarious.

0.2–1.5 cm, densely stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium disc-shaped;

sepals prominently 3-veined, ovate to lanceolate (herbaceous portion oblong to narrowly ovate), 2.5–3.2 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green to purple, acute to acuminate, not hooded, stipitate-glandular;

petals elliptic, 0.8–1.3 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire.

on stipe ca. 0.2 mm, ovoid, 4.5–5 mm, longer than sepals.

reddish brown, suborbiculate with radicle prolonged into beak, somewhat compressed, 0.4–0.5 mm, tuberculate;

tubercles low, elongate, rounded (to angled on edge) (50x).

= 24.