Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, much-branched, 4-sided, usually 10–20(–40) cm, glabrous, with single line of hairs along each internode.

diffusely branched, 4-angled, 3–30 cm, glabrous.

petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal);

blade ovate to elliptic, usually 0.3–1.5 cm × 1–7 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex shortly acuminate, glabrous or with few cilia on margins and abaxial midrib.

sessile or subsessile;

blade with midrib obscure, broadly elliptic-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, widest at or above middle, 0.2–0.8(–1.5) cm × to 2 mm, ± succulent, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous;

leaf blades in terminal buds sometimes become fleshy and form gemmae.

terminal, 3–35-flowered cymes;

bracts lanceolate, 2–10 mm, herbaceous, margins entire.

with flowers usually solitary, terminal and in axils of distal leaves forming open, diffuse cymes;

bracts foliaceous, 1–10 mm; 1 or 2 pairs of bracteoles sometimes present, 1–3 mm, herbaceous or with narrow membranous margins.

spreading, sometimes deflexed at base in fruit, 1–10 mm, pubescent.

erect or sharply angled at base, becoming sharply curved at apex, 3–40 mm, glabrous.

2–3 mm diam.;

sepals 4–5, veins obscure, midrib sometimes present, lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins narrow, herbaceous, apex acute, pubescent;

petals usually absent;

stamens 1–3 or absent;

anthers gray-violet;

styles 3, ascending, becoming curled, 0.2–0.5 mm.

5–8 mm;

sepals 5, 3-veined, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 3–3.5(–4) mm, margins straight, narrow, scarious, apex acute, glabrous or rarely margins pubescent;

petals 5, 2.5–5 mm, equaling to slightly longer than sepals;

stamens 5 or 10;

styles 3, ascending, curved at tip, ca. 2 mm.

pale straw colored, ovoid, 2–4(–5) mm, equaling to slightly longer than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves, outwardly curled at tip;

carpophore absent.

straw colored, conic to ellipsoid, 4–5 mm, longer than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

pale yellowish brown, reniform to round, 0.5–0.9 mm diam., tuberculate;

tubercles prominent, broader than tall, apex obtuse.

reddish brown, reniform to round, 0.7–1 mm diam., rugose.

= 22.

= 26.