Compilation
Berzelia intermedia

smooth or somewhat hairy, leaves very short-petioled, spreading or recurved, linear-trigonal, rather tetragonal toward the apex, callous at the tip; heads of flowers size of a nut, forming a corymb on the lateral branches. Near B. lanuginosa, but more robust, the young branches a little hairy, not villous, the leaves thicker, (not longer) and spreading, often reflexed, the heads 3–4 times larger and corymbose, the peduncles 1 inch long or longer, leafy, and the flowers somewhat larger. Bracteæ obovate, unguiculate, ustulate at top, at length incurved. Petals white, oblong, spathulate. Stamens 4 or 5, twice longer than the petals. Fruit 1 line long.