CISTACEAE: Rockrose Family

KEY TO SPECIES OF HELIANTHEMUM

 

1. Underside of leaf blades on main twigs light green and with minute clustered hairs, the hairs up to ca 0.18 mm; outer sepals of flowers that open 0.7-1.2 mm across, narrowly spatulate; cliestogamous flowers and their fruits in compact clusters of a few to many .................................................. H. corymbosum

1. Underside of leaf blades on main twigs grayish with abundant clustered hairs, the hairs up to 0.3 mm; outer sepals of flowers that open 0.3-0.5 mm across, linear to narrowly awl-shaped; cliestogamous flowers and their fruits well separated or in clusters of a few ........................................................ H. arenicola

 

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