Flora of North America species comparison

glandular throughout.

blades spatulate or obovate to oblanceolate, 0.7–4 × (0.1–)0.5–1.2 cm, strigose adaxially, less so abaxially, sparsely glandular on both surfaces.

open to densely branched, 0.5–2 dm;

bracts 1–5 × 0.5–3 mm, 3(–5) at first node and linear to ovate, otherwise distinct or basally connate and linear to triangular, ciliate and glandular;

awns 1–3 mm.

deflexed, stout, 0.2–0.5 cm at proximal nodes, sometimes absent.

1.5–2 mm, typically glabrous, rarely with few scattered hairs abaxially;

teeth 4;

awns reddish, 2.5–3 mm.

2–4(–7);

perianth white to pink, 1–1.5 mm, strigose and sparsely glandular abaxially;

tepals dimorphic, entire, those of outer whorl oval to ovate and strigose abaxially, those of inner elliptic to oval or ovate and glabrous or sometimes pubescent adaxially at base;

filaments 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream to red, oval, 0.2 mm.

dark brown to maroon, 1–1.5 mm.

= 40.