Flora of North America species comparison

glandular distally.

blades spatulate to oblong or oblanceolate, 1–6 × 0.3–1.5 cm, margins ciliate, otherwise glabrous.

open to densely branched, 0.8–1.7 dm;

bracts at first node 4–5, triangular to lanceolate, 2–10 × 0.5–4(–8) mm, with awn 0.5–1 mm, sparsely glandular, bracts at remaining nodes 3, forming an orbiculate to somewhat triangular perfoliate disk mostly 1–2.5 cm across, glabrous or glandular, with awn 1–3 mm, terminal bracts 0.5–2 × 0.1–0.4 mm, sometimes merely acerose, with awn 0.5–2 mm.

erect, stout, 0.3–0.8 mm at proximal nodes, sometimes absent.

2–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely glandular abaxially;

teeth 4;

awns reddish, 2–3 mm.

5–10;

perianth white or yellowish green to pink, 1.5–2.5 mm, echinulate and sparsely glandular abaxially;

tepals monomorphic, lanceolate to ovate;

filaments 1–1.5 mm, papillate basally;

anthers pink to red, oval, 0.2–0.5 mm.

dark brown to maroon, 1.5–2 mm.

= 40.