Flora of North America species comparison

several, erect, simple, 15–50 cm, puberulent, viscid-glandular distally.

several–many, decumbent to erect, much-branched and sometimes matted, leafy, 5–30 cm, pubescent and glandular, at least distally.

mostly basal;

basal marcescent, long-petiolate, densely tufted, blade 1-veined, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–10(–20) cm × 2–12(–20) mm, not fleshy, base tapering to petiole, apex acute to obtuse, finely puberulent on both surfaces;

cauline in 1–3 pairs, sessile, much reduced, blade linear-lanceolate, not fleshy.

2 per node, leafy above, sessile;

blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, broadest proximally, narrowed to base, 1–5 cm × 3–8 mm, apex acute, short-pubescent and ± glandular on both surfaces.

1–5(–7)-flowered, with terminal flower and lateral, open, pedunculate cymes often reduced to single flowers, bracteate;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3–10(–20) mm.

cymose, loose, leafy, compound, or flowers terminal, axillary in distal nodes.

erect, elongate, 0.5–4.5 cm, glandular-puberulent.

0.5–1(–3) cm, glandular-pubescent.

calyx prominently 10-veined, those to lobes lance-shaped broadened and thickened distally, commissural veins slender, not forked distally, campanulate, 10–12 × 3.5–5 mm in flower, enlarging to 15 × 10 mm in fruit, not contracted around carpophore, papery, margins dentate, glandular-pubescent, viscid, veins parallel, with pale commissures, lobes patent, ovate, 1.5–4 mm, rigid, margins broad, membranous;

corolla off-white to dingy purple-red, clawed, claw exceeding calyx, ciliate proximally, broadened distally, limbs erect, 2–4-lobed, less than 1/2 length of calyx, lobes 2–5 mm, appendages 2–4, 0.5–1 mm;

stamens slightly exserted;

filaments lanate, expanded at base;

styles 3–5, ± equaling calyx.

unisexual, all plants having both staminate and pistillate flowers;

calyx obscurely 10-veined, ovate-campanulate, 9–11 × 4–6 mm, herbaceous, papery, pubescence rather dense, glandular, ± obscuring veins, veins slender, without conspicuous pale commissures, lobes lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, apex acute to acuminate;

corolla white, clawed, claw shorter than calyx, limb oblong, 2-lobed, 1.5–3 mm, lobes lanceolate, apex acute, appendages linear, 0.3–0.5 mm;

stamens equaling corolla;

stigmas 3, slender, equaling corolla, papillate only at tip.

slightly longer than calyx, opening by 3–5 teeth;

carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm.

straw colored, ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore ca. 1 mm.

brown, reniform, 1.2–2 mm, margins with large, inflated papillae, rugose on sides.

dull brown, not winged, angular-reniform, ca. 1 mm, tuberculate.

= 48.

= 24.