Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, often decumbent at base, branched, 4-sided, 10–60 cm, uniformly and softly pubescent.

spreading, branched, very leafy, 4-angled, 10–20 cm, short glandular-puberulent on internodes.

sessile;

blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, widest proximal to middle, 1–4.5 cm × 4–20 mm, base round, margins densely ciliate, apex shortly acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces.

sessile;

blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, widest at or above middle, 8–30 × 2–13 mm, base round to cuneate, margins not scarious, apex usually obtuse, viscid.

terminal, 5–many-flowered, leafy cymes;

bracts foliaceous, 4–40 mm, margins ciliate, not scarious.

terminal, 1–5-flowered, very leafy cymes;

bracts foliaceous.

ascending to erect, straight, spreading to reflexed at base in fruit, 5–20 mm.

ca. 10 mm in flower, elongating, recurved, and tortuous in fruit, glandular-pubescent, pushing capsule into substrate.

9–10 mm diam.;

sepals (4–)5, 3-veined, lanceolate, 2.8–5 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex acuminate, ciliate-pubescent mainly on margins and veins;

petals 5, 4–6 mm, equaling or slightly longer than sepals, blade apex deeply 2-fid;

stamens 10;

styles 3, ascending, ca. 1.5 mm.

5–10 mm;

sepals 5, obscurely veined, ovate-obtuse, 3–5 mm, margins narrow, scarious, glandular-pubescent;

petals 5, 4–6 mm;

stamens 5;

styles 3, ascending, equaling petals.

green to straw colored, lanceoloid-ovoid, 5–6 mm, slightly longer than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3, tardily 6, ascending valves;

carpophore absent.

green to straw colored, broadly ovoid to globose, 5–6 mm, apex obtuse, tardily dehiscent with 3 valves;

carpophore absent.

reddish brown, broadly and obliquely ovate, ± 1 mm diam., minutely rugose.

3–6, rusty brown, ± ovate, ca. 2.5 mm diam., finely tuberculate.