Flora of North America species comparison

simple erect or ascending, 10–30 cm.

decumbent, freely branching or simple, 1–10 cm, often rooting at nodes, forming small, loose mats.

basal and alternate, petiolate;

blade oblanceolate, 10–70 × 4–12 mm.

alternate, not distinctly petiolate, with clasping leaf sheaths;

blade linear, 5–25 × 1–2 mm.

leafy, from apices of fertile caudex branches (determinate) or from leaf axils of shortened fertile caudex (indeterminate), sometimes bulbiliferous in leaf axils.

axillary, 1-bracteate;

bract minute, scarious.

1–12, showy;

sepals 2–3.5 mm;

petals 5, pink or white, 6–15 mm;

stamens 5, anther pink.

2–8;

sepals 1–2 mm;

petals 2–5, often absent, white, 0.7–1.5 mm;

stamens (2–)3(–5), anther pink.

0.8–1.5 mm;

eliaosome rounded, minute, shorter than 0.5 mm, shiny, appearing smooth.

0.5–1 mm, tuberculate;

elaiosome minute, shorter than 0.5 mm.

= 22, 44.