Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, pubescent or subglabrous, hairs spreading.

alternate;

sessile or subsessile;

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

whorled, at least proximally;

sessile or subsessile;

blade narrowly oblanceolate-spatulate to linear or scalelike, 3–25 × 0.5–2(–5) mm, base cuneate, apex rounded or acute, surfaces pubescent.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

cylindric, 1–3 × 0.5 cm;

peduncle to 1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly ovate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

0.5–1 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, purple, or white, 2.5–4.5 mm;

sepals ovate to elliptic, 0.5–1 mm;

wings mostly elliptic, to ovate or obovate, 3–5 × 2–3 mm, apex acute or obtuse;

keel 2.7–3.8 mm, crest 2-parted with 2–4 entire or 2-fid lobes on each side.

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

ellipsoid, 1.5–2 × 1 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

0.7–1.1 mm, pubescent, hairs glochidiate;

aril vestigial or, rarely, to 0.1 mm, unlobed.