Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending, much-branched, 4–10 cm, hirtellous.

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 lanceolate, 5–8 mm, apex acuminate, often deeply cleft;

blade lanceolate, 5–9 × 0.75–1.1 mm, leathery, apex pungently mucronate, minutely hirtellous to puberulent.

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, ± short-campanulate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx slightly constricted then widening distally, 3.3–4.5 mm, puberulent with mostly ascending hairs;

sepals red-brown, midrib and lateral pair of veins absent to evident, oblong, 1.7–2 mm, leathery to rigid, margins white, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, papery to scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood ± obscure, broadly rounded, awn moderately divergent, white, ± lanceoloid, 1.4–2.1 mm, scabrous, distinct spine absent;

staminodes ± triangular, 0.2–0.4 mm;

styles 2, 0.5–0.7 mm.

ovoid, 1.3–1.5 mm, smooth, glabrous.

subglobose to ± 4-angular, 1.2–1.3 mm, papillate distally.

terminal and subterminal, 3–7(–10)-flowered, densely congested, forming large and conspicuous glomerules 5–15 mm wide.

= 32.