Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched at base, 4-angled, 5–20 cm (rarely to 40 cm when long and straggling), glabrous.

spatulate-petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal), bases clasping, connate around stem, ciliate;

blade elliptic to lanceolate, 3–9 cm × 1–3 mm, somewhat succulent, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, glabrous.

terminal, (1–)2–ca. 21-flowered, subumbellate, often with 1 or 2 axillary flowers below;

bracts lanceolate, 1–7 mm, distal ones entire, scarious, proximal ones usually herbaceous.

sharply deflexed at base, often curved distally in fruit, 7–20 mm, glabrous.

ca. 2 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 3-veined, lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex obtuse, glabrous;

petals absent;

stamens 5;

styles 3, ascending, curled, ca. 0.25 mm.

straw colored, conic, 3–4.5 mm, exceeding sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

brownish, round, 0.5–0.7 mm diam., shallowly rugose.

= 26.