Flora of North America species comparison

cauline (marcescent, crowded), opposite (rarely alternate);

petiole absent;

blade oblong to ± broadly obovate, unlobed, 2–5 mm, leathery, margins entire, bristly-ciliate, with 1(–3) lime-secreting hydathodes (in pit, secretion obvious), apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous.

basal (sometimes cauline on trailing stems), (closely imbricate);

petiole absent;

blade round to broadly obovate, unlobed, 1–4 mm, ± fleshy, margins entire, stiffly bristly-ciliate, apex obtuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous.

solitary flowers, ebracteate, 1–5 cm, glabrate or sparsely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular.

solitary flowers, to 1 cm, glabrous;

bracts sessile.

sepals erect, ovate, margins stiffly ciliate or not, surfaces hairy, stipitate-glandular, or glabrous;

petals purple to pink, rarely white, often drying violet, not spotted, obovate to elliptic, (2–)5–12(–20) mm, longer than sepals;

ovary ± superior.

unisexual (plants dioecious);

sepals spreading in flower, reflexed in fruit, (purple), triangular to ovate, margins ciliate, surfaces hairy;

petals yellow, drying cream to brown, not spotted, linear to oblanceolate, 1–2.5 mm, ± equaling sepals;

ovary superior.

± folliclelike.

= 12.