Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, sometimes slightly glaucous, usually glabrous, rarely with few scattered, minute hairs, those appressed to incurved.

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 linear-lanceolate, (3–)6–25 × 0.6–1 mm, base obtuse, apex acute to subacuminate, surfaces glabrous.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

loosely cylindric, 3–15(–21) × 0.4–0.8 cm;

peduncle 0.5–2.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, ovate to lanceolate-ovate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

0.5–1 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent.

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.

white, greenish veined, 3–4.5 mm;

sepals ovate, 1.6–2.3 mm;

wings obovate or elliptic-ovate, 3–4.3 × 1.6–1.8 mm, apex obtuse (rarely to bluntly rounded);

keel 3.4 mm, crest 2-parted, with 3 lobes on each side, each 2–4-lobed.

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

oblong, 4–6.3 × 2.3 mm, abaxial locule not winged, adaxial locule longer, winged, wing broadly scarious, erose-crenulate.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

2.7 mm, pubescent, coat with rows of pits 0.05 mm wide;

arils 2 mm, lobes 1/3–2/3 length of seed, vestigial, or to 1/3 length of seed in wingless abaxial locule.