Key to Symphoricarpos

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(For a list of species in Symphoricarpos, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Corolla 

lobes 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

hairy inside, ± = throat (subg. Symphoricarpos)

2. Plant 6–18 dm, 

erect 

Upright; vertically oriented.

; corolla swollen on 1 side, with 5 nectary glands within swelling; inflorescence generally 8–16-flowered ..... S. albus var. laevigatus

2' Plant 1.5–6 dm, sprawling; corolla scarcely or not swollen, nectary glands 5, 1 below each corolla 

lobe 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

; inflorescence generally 2–8-flowered ..... S. mollis

1' Corolla lobes glabrous inside, << throat or tube (subg. Anisanthus)

3. Corolla ± 

salverform 

Having a slender tube and an abruptly spreading, flat limb; often applied to a fused corolla.

, 8–15 mm, tube slender, glabrous inside, 3–4 × 

spreading 

Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.

lobes; nectary 1; 

leaf 

Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).

± similar adaxially, abaxially, 

blade 

Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.

generally 4–12 mm ..... S. longiflorus

3' Corolla narrowly bell-shaped, 6–10 mm, tube wide, ± hairy inside, 2–3 × erect lobes; nectaries 5; leaf more obviously veined abaxially, blade generally 8–20 mm ..... S. rotundifolius

4. Plant trailing; corolla tube inside sparsely hairy throughout; s SNH, SW, SNE, DMtns ..... var. parishii

4' Plant ± erect; corolla tube inside hairy in middle 1/3, otherwise glabrous; CaR, SN, GB ..... var. rotundifolius

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