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.

blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely oblong, 5–18 × 2–55 mm, margins entire, slightly revolute.

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

in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current year’s shoots.

nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate;

bracteoles 2, greenish white, scalelike, 1–2 mm wide.

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 lobes relatively small;

corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to pink;

filaments hairy;

anther tubules 1–2 mm.

baccate, ovoid to globose, fleshy.

red to pink, 9–14 mm diam., smooth.

2–40, ellipsoid;

testa reticulate.

= 12.

= 24.