Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous.

erect, sometimes laxly so, puberulent or subglabrous, 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 subsessile;

blade usually linear-lanceolate to linear, sometimes falcate-linear with reflexed tip, 4–15 × 0.3–1 mm, base obtuse or acute, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces usually puberulent, rarely subglabrous, hairs incurved.

cylindric, 1.5–13 × 0.5–0.6 cm;

peduncle 0.5–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, narrowly lanceolate-ovate.

subcapitate, 0.5–1.4(–2.5) × 1 cm;

peduncle 0–0.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, ovate to lanceolate-ovate.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

0.5 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.

white, greenish or purplish veined, keel pink to purplish brown, often yellow-green distally, (3.7–)4–6 mm;

sepals oblong-ovate, 1.3 mm;

wings spatulate-obovate, (3.5–)4–6 × 1.3–1.6 mm, apex obtuse or acute, sometimes minutely apiculate;

keel 2.8 mm, crest 2-parted, with 3 divided lobes on each side.

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

oblong-ellipsoid to oblong, 2.3–3.5 × 1.6 mm, abaxial locule not winged, adaxial locule slightly longer, not or obscurely winged.

1–1.2 mm, pubescent;

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

2.5–3 mm, puberulent, coat with rows of pits 0.05 mm wide;

aril 1–1.9 mm, lobes 1/2 to subequal to length of seed.

= 16.