Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent or ascending, diffusely branched, 4-sided, 5–40 cm, with single line of hairs along each internode.

erect or straggling, branched, square, 10–35 cm, glabrous but angles minutely papillate-scabrid.

petiolate (proximal) or ± sessile (distal);

blade usually green, ovate to broadly elliptic, 0.5–4 cm × 2–20 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acute or shortly acuminate, ± glabrous or ciliate at base.

sessile;

blade green to yellowish green, never glaucous, linear to very narrowly elliptic, widest at or beyond middle, 0.8–4 cm × 1–3 mm, not coriaceous, base attenuate, apex acuminate to acute, glabrous to sparingly ciliate at base, margins minutely papillate-scabrid;

proximal leaves shorter and wider.

terminal, 5–many-flowered cymes;

bracts ovate and shortly acuminate to lanceolate-acute, 1–40 mm, herbaceous.

terminal, widely divaricate, 2–many-flowered cymes;

bracts lanceolate, 1–5 mm, scarious, apex acuminate.

ascending, usually straight, deflexed at base in fruit, 3–40 mm, usually with line of hairs.

straight or somewhat arcuate, commonly 3–30 mm, glabrous or scabrous.

2–5 mm diam.;

sepals 5, with obscure midrib, ovate-lanceolate, 4.5–5(–6) mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex obtuse, usually glandular-hairy;

petals absent or 5, 1–4 mm, shorter than to equaling sepals;

stamens 3–5(–8);

anthers red-violet;

styles 3, outwardly curved, becoming curled, 0.5–1 mm.

5–9 mm diam.;

sepals 5, obscurely 3-veined, ovate-elliptic, 2–4 mm, margins scarious, apex acute, glabrous;

petals 5, 2–3.5 mm, ± equaling sepals;

stamens 5–10;

styles 3, ascending, ca. 1 mm.

green to straw colored, ovoid-oblong, 3–5 mm, somewhat longer than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

blackish purple or straw colored, ovoid-conic, 3–6 mm, much longer than sepals, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

reddish brown, broadly reniform to round, 0.9–1.3 mm diam., with obtuse, round, or flat-topped (broader than tall) tubercles.

brown, broadly reniform, 0.7–0.8 mm diam., slightly rugose.

= 40, 42, 44.

= 26.