OregonFlora species comparison

erect, bright red or green, glabrous.

normal; but sometimes reduced or absent; ovate to spatulate, 5–75 × 4–45 mm, abaxially dull and light green to purplish, adaxially dull or shiny and green to dark green;

veins white leathery;

margins entire or denticulate;

tips obtuse to acute;

petioles 4–25 mm, glabrous.

alternate, generally basal or sometimes reduced or absent;

margins entire to serrate;

surfaces glabrous;

petioles present.

1–2(3), 4–22-flowered;

bracts awl-shaped to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–6 × 2–3 mm.

symmetric racemes; erect in flower and fruit;

bracts present;

pedicels pendent in fruit.

3–18 mm.

sepals ovate to deltate, 1–4 × 1–4 mm, usually fused 50% of their length, green with thin white to pinkish margins;

margins entire or denticulate;

tips acute;

corollas spreading;

petals obovate, 4–11 × 3–7 mm, white; greenish white, pink, or reddish;

margins entire to denticulate;

stamens 5–9 mm;

anthers 2–5 mm;

styles exserted; bent sideways to downward, 4–9 mm;

stigmas 1–1.5 mm wide.

radially or bilaterally symmetric;

sepals 5;

calyx lobes triangular, deltate, or ovate;

corollas bowl- to bell-shaped;

petals 5; distinct, white; greenish, yellow, pink, or red;

stamens 10, exserted;

filaments glabrous;

anthers oblong; without awns, dehiscent by pores;

ovaries superior;

styles exserted or included; bent downward or straight;

stigmas 5-lobed; without subtending ring of hairs.

depressed-globose, 4–9 mm.

capsules, pendulous; dehiscence loculicidal; cobwebby tissue exposed at dehiscence.

many; minute, fusiform, winged.

=46.