Flora of North America species comparison

erect to sprawling, densely pubescent or glabrate, with dense, matted or shaggy tomentum, hairs appressed, incurved, or, occasionally, irregularly spreading.

sessile or subsessile, rarely with narrow, petiolelike base to 1(–2) mm;

blade linear to oblanceolate or obovate, (3–)4–20(–25) × 0.8–3(–3.5) mm, base long-cuneate, apex rounded to acute, surfaces densely pubescent, hairs incurved.

terminal, sometimes aggregated into pseudopanicles or reduced and appearing fasciculate, 1.5 × 0.7–1.3 cm;

rachis thorn-tipped;

peduncle 0–0.1 cm;

bracts deciduous, lanceolate or ovate.

(2.5–)3–7(–9) mm, glabrous.

cream or greenish, (2.5–)3–4.7(–5.2) mm;

sepals deciduous, ovate or elliptic, 1.3–3.3 mm, glabrous or with few incurved hairs subapically, margins sparsely ciliate;

wings obovate, 2.5–4.9 × 1.5–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent subapically;

keel (2–)2.5–3.4 mm, sac glabrous or appressed-pubescent in upper part, beak mostly absent, when present, a bluntly rounded projection, 0(–0.5) × 0(–0.5) mm, glabrous or pubescent.

broadly ellipsoid, ovoid, or subglobose, 3.5–5.8 × 3.3–4.6 mm, base truncate to rounded, margins with narrow and even wing, glabrous.

2.8–4.2 mm, sparsely pubescent to subglabrous;

aril 1.2–2.3 mm, lobes to 1/3 length of seed.

= 18.