Flora of North America species comparison

erect, spreading, or creeping, glabrous or hairy.

persistent or deciduous;

petiole absent or present;

blade elliptic or ovate to oblong-lanceolate or spatulate, membranous to coriaceous, margins entire or serrate, plane or, sometimes, revolute, surfaces glabrous or hairy;

venation brochidodromous.

deciduous;

blade dark to pale green or glaucous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 15–41 × (5–)6–16(–20) mm, margins usually sharply, uniformly serrate (serrations sometimes minute, tipped with stipitate gland), surfaces glabrous or hairy, especially along abaxial midvein, eglandular abaxially.

axillary or terminal, racemes, usually 2–10-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, (leafy); (bracteoles absent, present in sect. Oxycoccos).

sepals 4–5, connate basally;

petals 4–5(–6), connate nearly their entire lengths, sometimes distinct or nearly so, white or cream to pink, bronze, or green, rarely red, corolla globose, cylindric, urceolate, or campanulate, lobes shorter to longer than tube;

filaments straight, flat, glabrous or hairy, without spurs;

stamens 8–10, included (sometimes exserted);

anthers with or without awns, dehiscent by pores (pores laciniate in sect. Polycodium);

pistil 4–5-carpellate;

ovary inferior, 4–5-locular or pseudo 10-locular;

stigma capitate.

calyx green, glaucous, glabrous;

corolla usually white, cylindric to urceolate, 4–6 mm;

filaments ciliate; (tubules with introrse, elongate pores).

baccate, ovoid to globose, fleshy.

black or blue, rarely white, 3–12 mm diam., glabrous.

2–40, ellipsoid;

testa reticulate.

(3–)10–15(–20), ca. 1.2 mm.

= 12.

= 48.