Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, appearing glabrous, but usually puberulent, at least proximally, hairs appressed (very rarely with a few sparse, incurved to spreading hairs).

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 oblanceolate proximally to linear distally, 3–16 × 0.5–1(–1.5) mm, base acute, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

densely cylindric, 0.5–4 × 0.4–0.7 cm;

peduncle 0.5–2.5 cm;

bracts persistent, linear-lanceolate.

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.

purple, dull reddish pink, or greenish, 2.4–3.4 mm;

sepals ovate, 0.5–0.8 mm;

wings elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 2–3 × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex acute to obtuse, sometimes minutely apiculate;

keel 2–3.2 mm, crest 2-parted, with 2 or 3 blunt lobes on each side.

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

ovoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose, 1.5–2.4 × 1.1–1.8 mm, margins not winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

0.9–1.4 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.3–0.7 mm, lobes to 1/2 length of seed.

= 46.