Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous or sparsely pubescent distally, hairs incurved.

erect, sometimes very slightly glaucous, puberulent, hairs incurved.

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.

alternate;

sessile or subsessile;

blade linear-lanceolate, linear, or linear-acicular, (3–)7–15 × 0.6–1.3 mm, base acute, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces subglabrous or glabrous.

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.

loosely cylindric (flowering portion may appear subcapitate from deciduous fruit), (1–)1.5–7.8 ×0.4–0.8 cm;

peduncle 0.2–1 cm;

bracts deciduous, ovate to lanceolate-ovate.

1.5–3.5 mm, glabrous.

0.5 mm, glabrous.

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.

white, greenish veined, wings with green or purple longitudinal stripe, keel green to purplish brown, (2.7–)2.9–4.7 mm;

sepals oblong-ovate, 1.3 mm;

wings spatulate-obovate, (2.4–)2.7–4.5 × 1.3–1.6 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

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

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

oblong-ellipsoid, 3–4.5 × 1.6–2 mm, abaxial locule not winged, adaxial locule slightly longer, winged, wing very narrow.

0.9–1.2 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.4 mm, lobes nearly vestigial to 1/3 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–)2/3 to subequal length of seed.

= 34.

= 32, 34.