Flora of North America species comparison

branched or unbranched;

hairs sessile or stalked, glandular throughout.

petiole purple, angled, 0.3–1.5 cm;

leaflet blade (conduplicate) ,linear to narrowly elliptic, 0.9–3.5 × 0.1–0.2 cm, margins entire, apex acute, mucronulate, surfaces densely glandular abaxially, sparsely glandular adaxially, (fleshy).

(glandular), 1–3 cm (6–8 cm in fruit);

bracts uni- to trifoliate, ovate, 7–15 mm.

10–23 mm.

sepals (± erect), green to purple, lanceolate to obovate, 2.5–3.6 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous;

petals white, oblong-ovate, clawed, abaxial pair 3–5 × 2.5–3 mm (9 or 10-lobed), apex lacerate, adaxial pair 6–11 × 3.5–5 mm (4–6-lobed), apex emarginate to lacerate;

nectary glands yellow (drying purple), 1–5.5 mm;

stamens 6–15, exserted, purple, 10–13 mm;

anthers purple, 1–1.5 mm;

gynophore 3–14 mm in fruit;

ovary 5–8 mm;

style persistent in fruit, 2.5–4.5 mm;

stigma green.

20–60 × 2–2.5(–5) mm, reticulate, glabrous or sparsely glandular.

12–40, dark reddish brown, globose to oblong, 1.5–1.8 mm, finely pebbled or beaded.