Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to suberect;

trichomes conspicuous at nodes and in inflorescence;

branches to 30 cm.

stiffly erect, suffrutescent;

trichomes conspicuous at nodes and in inflorescence;

branches (8–)15–30 cm.

blades linear to lanceolate, terete to hemispheric, 5–30 × 1–5 mm, apex acute or subacute; involucrelike leaves 8–9(–14).

blades linear, terete, (4–)8–20(–30) × 0.5–2.8 mm, apex acute to subacute; involucrelike leaves 6–9.

25–55 mm diam.;

petals pink, red, purple, yellow, bronze, or white, obovate, 15–25 × 15–20 mm;

stamens 40 or more;

stigmas 5–8.

25 mm diam.;

petals orange, brown-orange, copper, or bronze, color often deepening at base, obcordate or emarginate, 7–12 × 4–5.5 mm;

stamens 25–35;

stigmas 4–7(–8).

ovoid, (3.5–)4–6.5 mm diam.

subglobose, 2.5–5 mm diam.

steely gray, often iridescent, orbiculate or elongate, flattened, 0.75–1 mm diam.;

surface cells obscurely stellate with tubercles mostly abaxially.

leaden, slightly iridescent, 0.5–0.65 mm;

surface cells loosely arranged in distinct rows, raised, stellate, tubercles usually present.

= 18.

= 8.