Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched, 4-sided, 10–40 cm, with alternating lines of spreading, soft, flexuous, mainly eglandular hairs.

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

usually sessile (distal), often short-petiolate (proximal);

blade elliptic, obovate, or lanceolate, widest at or beyond middle, 1–10 cm × 5–35 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous to sparsely pubescent adaxially, ciliate on margins and abaxial midrib.

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, 3–70-flowered cymes;

bracts elliptic to lanceolate, 7–65 mm, herbaceous.

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

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

erect in flower, often deflexed at base in fruit, 5–40 mm, softly pubescent.

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

(8–)10–12 mm diam.;

sepals 5, with midrib, ovate, 3.5–6 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex obtuse to acute, softly and often sparsely pubescent;

petals 5, 4–8 mm, longer than sepals;

stamens 10;

styles 3, ascending, 2.5 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, broadly ovoid, 3.5–5.5 mm, ca. equaling 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.

brown, obliquely reniform, 1.5–2 mm diam., coarsely sulcate-papillate.

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

= 30.

= 26.