Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect to decumbent or procumbent, usually sparsely pubescent, rarely glabrate, hairs incurved.

larger ones usually early deciduous;

sessile or petiolate, petiole to 1 mm;

blade linear, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, obovate, or scalelike, 1–4(–15) × 0.5–1(–3.7) mm, base cuneate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs incurved.

terminal, often also appearing axillary (from branches proximal to racemes of major branches with vegetative portions highly reduced), 2–10(–15) ×0.8–1.5 cm;

rachis not thorn-tipped;

peduncle 0–2 cm;

bracts persistent, ovate to lanceolate.

(1.3–)1.6–3.6 mm, usually pubescent, rarely subglabrous.

usually white or cream, often with purplish center stripe, rarely pink, 3–5 mm;

upper sepal persistent, others deciduous, ovate to elliptic or obovate, 1.4–3(–3.4) mm, pubescent;

wings obovate to elliptic, (2.5–)3–4.6 × (1.2–)1.5–3 mm, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent;

keel (2.2–)2.5–4 mm, sac incurved-puberulent in distal 1/2, beak bluntly rounded to oblong, (0.3–)0.4–1.1 × 0.2–0.5(–0.7) mm, pubescent.

ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 2.5–4(–4.5) × (2.1–)2.3–3.2(–3.4) mm, base rounded or subtruncate, margins with very narrow and even wing, usually pubescent, sometimes subglabrous proximally.

2.3–3(–3.4) mm, usually evenly pubescent;

aril (0.8–)1–1.6 mm, lobes to 1/2 length of seed.

= 18.