OregonFlora species comparison

ovate to elliptic, 9–29 × 4–18 mm; thin or thick at maturity;

margins entire;

tips rounded to acute;

surfaces abaxially glabrous or glaucous, adaxially glabrous.

ovate to elliptic, 3–10 × 1–5 mm, strongly glaucous abaxially, green to dark green adaxially; stiff;

margins entire;

tips rounded to subacute;

surfaces abaxially glaucous, adaxially glabrous.

racemes, 2–4-flowered, occasionally 1-flowered.

solitary flowers in axils;

bracts < 1 mm wide.

distinct;

sepals 4 or 5, usually glaucous;

corollas urceolate, 4–6 × 2–5 mm, white to pink, glaucous;

petals 4 or 5;

filaments ? anthers, glabrous.

sepals 4;

calyx lobes shallow, deltate, red, glaucous;

petals 4;

corollas 4.5–7.5 mm; whitish pink to pink, glabrous;

lobes deeply parted and reflexed;

filaments 50% as long as anthers, pubescent.

4–9 mm in diameter, blue to bluish black, with a faint bloom.

4–10 mm in diameter, dark red to bluish black, with a bloom.

evergreen, 1–5 dm;

twigs slender; round in cross section to angled, red to brown, puberulent or sometimes glabrous, often peeling, not rhizomatous.

=24, 48, 72.

=24, 48, 72.