Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, glabrous or sparsely pubescent distally, hairs 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 petiolate, petiole to 1 mm;

blade narrowly spatulate proximally to linear distally, (6–)10–20(–25) × (0.5–)1–2(–2.5) mm, base cuneate or acute, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

capitate, (0.5–)1–3.5 × 0.6–1.1 cm;

peduncle 0.2–2 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, infrequently a few persistent, scattered, lanceolate-ovate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

1.5–3.5 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 purple, 4–5.7 mm;

sepals elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

wings ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 2.5–4.5(–5.2) × 1.1–3(–3.6) mm, apex acute to obtuse, often minutely apiculate;

keel 2.3–3.5(–4) mm, crest 2-parted, with2–4 lobes on each side.

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

subglobose or ellipsoid, 1.5–2.3 × 1–2 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

0.9–1.2 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.4 mm, lobes nearly vestigial to 1/3 length of seed.

= 34.