Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, branched, 4-sided, 3–23 cm, internodes equaling or longer than leaves, glabrous, rarely pilose.

decumbent, much-branched, 4-sided, 15–70 cm, softly glandular-pubescent.

sessile or short-petiolate;

blade broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.2–1.2 cm × 0.9–7 mm, base round or cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, shiny, glabrous or ciliate near base.

petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal), flaccid;

blade ovate to deltate, 1–4.5 cm × 6–28 mm, base cordate, truncate, or rarely abruptly rounded, margins entire, apex acuminate, glabrous, rarely ciliate on margins.

with flowers solitary, axillary;

bracts absent.

terminal, (3–)5–35-flowered cymes;

bracts sessile, foliaceous, lanceolate to ovate, 3–30 mm, distally reduced.

spreading, 3–12 mm, glabrous.

ascending to spreading, sometimes deflexed in fruit, slender, 5–20(–30) mm, softly glandular.

1.5–2 mm diam.;

sepals 4–5, veins obscure, midrib sometimes apparent, ± ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex ± obtuse, glabrous;

petals absent;

stamens 10 or fewer;

styles 3(–4), curled, shorter than 0.5 mm.

3–8 mm diam.;

sepals 5, with prominent midrib, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, to 8 mm in fruit, margins narrow, scarious, apex acuminate, blunt, pubescent on midrib, ± ciliate on margins;

petals 4–5, 2–8 mm, shorter than to 2 times as long as sepals, blade apex deeply emarginate with 2 narrow lobes;

stamens 3–8;

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

green to pale straw colored, translucent, globose to broadly ovoid, 2.3–3.5 mm, 1.9–2 times as long as sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

green, transparent, ovoid, 4–6 mm, ± equaling sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves, recurved at tip;

carpophore absent.

grayish black, broadly elliptic, 0.5–0.7 mm diam., finely reticulate.

reddish brown, round, 1–1.2 mm diam., covered with prominent, stalked glands.

= 26, 52, ca. 65, ca. 78.

= 26, 52.