Flora of North America species comparison

procumbent, branched from base, hirtellose; flowering stems 7–45 cm;

sterile stems 3–10 cm.

stipules narrowly lanceolate, 6–13 mm, apex acuminate, often deeply cleft;

blade linear, 10–30 × 0.4–1 mm, leathery, apex short-spinose, minutely hirtellous to puberulent.

5-merous, narrowly ovoid, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx tapering gradually distally, 2.8–5.1 mm, glabrous to puberulent, especially proximally;

sepals brown to yellowish, midrib and lateral pair of veins prominent, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2–2.9 mm, leathery to rigid, margins whitish, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by awn, hood rounded-triangular, awn curved outward, green to red-brown, ± conic, 0.4–1.1 mm, scabrous, distinct spine absent;

staminodes filiform, 0.8–1 mm;

style 1, cleft in distal 1/5, 1.2–2 mm.

terminal, 3–10+-flowered, somewhat open to compact, often forming clusters 6–30 mm wide.

ovoid to obovoid, 1.8–2 mm, smooth, glabrous.