Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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.

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.

with flowers solitary in axils of foliage leaves;

bracts absent.

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

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

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

erect, 5–45 mm, softly pubescent.

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.

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

carpophore absent.

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

carpophore absent.

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

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

= 26.

= 60.