Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, sometimes laxly so, to nearly decumbent, 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.

usually alternate, sometimes subopposite or opposite when scalelike proximally (less than 2 mm);

sessile or subsessile, or with narrow petiolelike portion to 2(–3) mm;

blade spatulate to linear-oblong, sometimes scalelike proximally, 5–15(–30) × 1–3(–6) mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse to rounded or acute, surfaces glabrous.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

loosely cylindric (open, elongate), 1.3–6(–10) × 0.8–1.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1(–2) cm;

bracts deciduous, ovate to oblong-ovate or elliptic.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

(1–)2(–3) 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 to pale purple, 6–8 mm;

sepals ovate, 0.8–1.1 mm;

wings elliptic or obovate, 3–6 ×1.5–2.7 mm, apex obtuse to bluntly rounded;

keel(2–)3–5 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2 or 3 lobes on each side, each lobe subdivided into 2–4 lobes.

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

ellipsoid or oblong, 2.5–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

2.3–3.3 mm, pubescent;

aril 2–3 mm, lobes 3/4 to equal length of seed.

flowers present in racemes usually below, rarely just above, soil surface, sometimes in proximal leaf axils later in season.