Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent and ascending, branched, smoothly 4-angled, 10–40 cm, 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.

sessile;

blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 0.5–2(–3) cm × 2–10(–13) mm, base cuneate, margins thin with reticulate venation, entire, apex acute, glabrous, slightly ciliate basally.

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.

axillary with 1–5-flowered cymes in mid and distal axils of foliage leaves;

bracts lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, scarious with green midrib.

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

5–30 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.

ca. 6 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 3-veined, lanceolate-triangular, 2.5–3.5 mm, margins scarious, apex acute, glabrous;

petals 5, 1.5–3 mm, shorter than (rarely equaling) sepals, blade apex 2-fid almost to base, with widely divergent lobes;

stamens 10;

styles 3, ca. 1 mm.

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

carpophore absent.

green, ovoid, 2.5–3.5 mm, equaling sepals, apex broadly acute;

carpophore absent.

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

pale reddish brown, ± reniform, 0.3–0.4 mm diam., with small tubercles.

= 26.

= 24.