Flora of North America species comparison

1–many, erect, simple, slender, 10–30 cm, glandular-pubescent.

erect, leafy proximally, 3–6(–15) cm, old leaves persistent at base.

mostly basal, densely crowded and imbricate, sessile;

blade 1(–3)-veined, linear-subulate to lanceolate, 0.4–1(–1.5) cm × 0.8–1.5(–2) mm, margins cartilaginous, often ciliolate especially proximally, apex acute, glabrous to scabrous.

connate basally, blade ciliate at base, pubescent on both surfaces;

basal numerous, ± petiolate, blade linear-oblanceolate, 1–5 cm × 1–5 mm, somewhat fleshy, apex ± acute;

cauline in 1–3 pairs, sessile, blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 1–4 cm × 1–3 mm, apex ± acute.

solitary flowers.

cymose, terminal, (1–)3-flowered, rarely with 1–2 flowers at proximal nodes, bracteate, bracteolate;

bracts and bracteoles leaflike, 2–10 mm.

2–40 mm.

usually shorter than calyx, rarely much longer, densely pubescent with purple-septate glandular hairs but not viscid.

bisexual or unisexual, all plants having both staminate and pistillate flowers, others having only pistillate flowers, subsessile or borne singly on peduncle;

calyx 10-veined, lateral veins absent, tubular to campanulate, (5–)7–10 mm, herbaceous, margins often purple tinged, dentate, sometimes ciliate, ± scarious, glabrous, lobes lanceolate to ovate, 1–2 mm;

petals bright pink, rarely white, limb unlobed to shallowly 2-fid, 2.5–3.5 mm, base tapered into claw, auricles and appendages poorly developed;

stamens exserted in staminate flowers, not so or aborted in pistillate flowers;

styles 3.

calyx prominently 10-veined, elliptic to campanulate, not inflated, not or slightly contracted at mouth, 8–9 × 3–5 mm in flower, 10–12 × 5–6 mm in fruit, to 2 times as long as broad, papery, veins green or purple, densely pubescent, with purple-septate hairs, lobes spreading, lanceolate-triangular, ca. 2 mm, margins purple tinged, round, broad, membranous;

corolla white to pink, clawed, ca. 11/4 times longer than calyx, claw equaling calyx, limb not differentiated from claw, obovate, emarginate to 2-lobed, shorter than calyx, appendages 2, ca. 1 mm;

stamens equaling petals;

styles 5, equaling petals.

3-locular, cylindric, equaling or to 2 times calyx, opening by 6 recurved teeth;

carpophore ca. 1 mm.

ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 5 recurved teeth;

carpophore shorter than 1 mm.

light brown, reniform, 0.8–1(–1.2) mm broad, dull, shallowly rugose.

brown, not winged, reniform, angular, less than 1 mm broad, finely papillate.

= 24.

= 24, 48, 72.