Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, much-branched, 5–10 cm, puberulent.

prostrate, sprawling-spreading, much-branched, 10–35 cm, short-pubescent.

stipules ovate, 3–6 mm, apex subobtuse, entire;

blade narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–5 × 0.2–1.8(–2) mm, fleshy, apex obtuse to subacute, glabrous.

stipules ovate, 3–7.5 mm, apex acuminate, entire;

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 5–18 × 1.5–3.5 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to very short-cuspidate, densely appressed-pubescent.

mostly solitary at end of shoots, almost concealed by leaves.;

flowers 5-merous, elliptic-oblong, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx straight to tapering distally, 2.5–2.8 mm, densely appressed-puberulent, sparsely so distally;

sepals whitish to green, veins absent, narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, 1.5–1.7 mm, papery to herbaceous, margins white, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, papery, apex with subterminal awn, hood ascending as continuation of sepal, broadly rounded to notched, awn erect, white, 0.3–0.6(–1) mm, ± glabrous spine;

staminodes filiform, 0.7–0.9 mm;

style 1, cleft in distal 1/3, 0.8–1 mm.

5-merous, ± extended-urceolate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx constricted proximally, flaring distally, 1.8–2 mm, pubescent with short, hooked hairs proximally;

sepals red-brown, often finely striped or mottled, veins absent, spatulate-obovate to suboblong, 0.8–1.3 mm, leathery to rigid, margins white, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by awn, broadly rounded, awn divergent, 0.3–0.4 mm, broadly conic in proximal 1/3–1/2 with white, scabrous spine;

staminodes filiform, 0.5–0.6 mm;

style 1, 0.7–0.8 mm, cleft in distal 1/5.

ovoid, 1.3–1.5 mm, smooth, glabrous.

globose, 0.8–1 mm, smooth, glabrous.

terminal and subterminal, occasionally axillary, 3–7-flowered, congested, clusters 3–8 mm wide.

= 32.