Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched, square, 10–40 cm, with alternating lines of soft, spreading, flexuous, mainly eglandular hairs.

petiolate (proximal) or subsessile (distal);

blade elliptic, broadly lanceolate to ovate, 1–5 cm × 5–16 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous, sparsely pubescent adaxially on midrib.

terminal, 3–7-flowered, cymes dichotomously branched;

bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 5–30 mm, soft, margins entire, distal ones ciliate on margins and adaxial vein.

erect, 5–45 mm, softly pubescent.

10–16 mm diam.;

sepals 5, obscurely veined, narrowly triangular, (5–)7–10(–12) mm, margins narrow, membranous, apex acuminate, glabrous or with shortly ciliate margins;

petals 5, equaling to slightly shorter than sepals;

stamens 10;

styles 3, ascending, ca. 2.5 mm.

straw colored to pale brown, broadly ovoid, ca. 5 mm, shorter than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3 valves;

carpophore absent.

brown, broadly reniform, ca. 2 mm diam., coarsely sulcate-papillate.

= 60.