Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent.

decumbent to ascending, glabrous except for fleshy, retrorse, whitish hairs at nodes.

ocrea brown or reddish brown, cylindric to funnelform, 5–12 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, margins oblique, eciliate or ciliate with bristles to 1.5 mm, surface lanate, sometimes also glandular-pubescent;

petiole 2–5 mm, winged distally;

blade ovate to elliptic, 1.5–4(–6) × 0.6–2.5(–3.3) cm, base cuneate or tapering, margins ciliate with reddish, multicellular hairs, apex acute, faces glandular-pubescent abaxially and adaxially, not glandular-punctate.

ocrea brownish or hyaline, cylindric to funnelform, 4–10 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, margins oblique, eciliate, surface glabrous or with bristlelike hairs proximally;

petiole 0.1–3 cm, winged to base, leaves sometimes sessile;

blade ovate-deltate, 1.5–5 × 1–4 cm, base rounded to truncate, margins glabrous or scabrous, apex acute, faces pilose and glandular-punctate abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

terminal, 5–20 × 7-18 mm;

peduncle 10–40 mm, glabrous or stipitate-glandular in distal 1/5;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

terminal and axillary, 5–10 × 5–10 mm;

peduncle 2–20 mm, apex stipitate-glandular;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

spreading, 0.5–1 mm.

mostly ascending, 0.1–1 mm, flowers sometimes sessile.

1–5 per ocreate fascicle;

perianth greenish white proximally, pinkish distally, urceolate, glabrous, nonaccrescent;

tepals 5, elliptic, 2–3 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

stamens 8, filaments distinct, free;

anthers pink to red, elliptic;

styles 3, connate to middle or distally.

1–2 per ocreate fascicle;

perianth white to pink or lavender, urceolate, glabrous, scarcely accrescent;

tepals 4(–5), oblong to broadly elliptic, 2.5–3 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

stamens (5–)8, filaments distinct, free;

anthers purplish black, elliptic;

styles 2, connate proximally.

included, reddish brown to brownish black, 3-gonous, 1.5–2.2 × 1–1.5 mm, shiny, smooth or minutely punctate.

included, dark brown to black, biconvex, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, dull, minutely punctate.