Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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.

with flowers solitary, axillary;

bracts absent.

terminal, 5–many-flowered, leafy cymes;

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

spreading, 3–12 mm, glabrous.

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

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.

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.

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

carpophore absent.

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

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

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