Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, glabrous.

alternate;

sessile or subsessile;

blade linear to subfiliform, 8–25 × 0.5–1 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous.

alternate;

sessile or subsessile;

blade linear to narrowly elliptic proximally, or linear-subulate distally, 6–23 × (0.5–)1(–2) mm, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

capitate to densely cylindric, 0.7–3(–4) × 0.6–1.3 cm;

peduncle 0.3–2 cm;

bracts persistent, often with scattered deciduous ones as well, lanceolate-ovate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

0.7–1.6 mm, glabrous.

usually purplish pink or lavender-pink, rarely white, 1.6–2.2 mm;

sepals ovate to narrowly lanceolate-ovate, 0.6–1 mm;

wings obovate or elliptic, 1.5–2 × 0.8–1 mm, apex obtuse to bluntly rounded;

keel 1.5–2 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2–3 lobes on each side.

pink or pale purple, 2.8–4 mm;

sepals ovate or lanceolate-ovate, 0.6–1.3 mm;

wings ovate or elliptic, 2.5–3.3(–3.8) × 1.7–2 mm, apex obtuse to bluntly rounded;

keel 2.8–4 mm, crest 2-parted, with 1 lobe on each side, other lobes reduced to low, blunt processes.

oblong to ellipsoid, 1.4–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, margins not winged.

subglobose, 1.5–2.3 × 1.5–2.3 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.1(–0.2) mm, lobes less than 1/8 length of seed.

1–1.5 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.5–0.8 mm, lobes 1/3–1/2 length of seed.

= 72.