Flora of North America species comparison

trailing to ascending, branched, 4-angled, 10–60 cm, glabrous.

decumbent, freely branched, square, 2–20 cm, glabrous, rooting at proximal nodes.

subsessile;

blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.4–2.6 cm × 2–15 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acuminate, glabrous or with a few scattered cilia.

sessile;

blade elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 0.4–1.5 cm × 1–5 mm, succulent, base cuneate to rounded, margins entire, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous or with few cilia along margins.

with flowers solitary in leaf axils;

bracts absent.

with flowers solitary in axils of foliage leaves;

bracts absent.

ascending, straight, mostly 5–30 mm, glabrous.

ascending, straight or nearly so, usually 5–10(–30) mm, glabrous.

4–5 mm;

sepals 5, prominently 3-veined, lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins broadly scarious, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous;

petals usually absent, rarely 1–5 and much shorter than sepals;

stamens 10 or fewer;

styles 3, spreading to ascending, curved but not curled, ca. 1 mm.

ca. 10 mm diam.;

sepals 5, prominently 1–3-veined, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, margins convex, narrow, scarious, apex acute, glabrous;

petals 5, 4–6 mm, equaling sepals;

stamens 10;

styles 3, ascending and outwardly curved, 1–1.5 mm.

straw colored or brownish, ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 3.5–6 mm, equaling or slightly exceeding sepals, apex broadly acute, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

straw colored, ovoid, 4–5 mm, equaling sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

brown, broadly elliptic, 0.7–1 mm (longest axis), distinctly rugose.

pale brown, broadly and obliquely reniform, 0.8–1 mm diam., smooth to slightly rugose.

= 26, 52.

= 26.