Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, reddish at least basally, glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrous or viscid-pubescent.

petiole 1–4.5 cm;

blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1–5 × 0.5–3 cm, margins entire or ± repand and undulate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent.

petiole 1–3.5 cm;

blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.3–0.4 cm, 5 or more times as long as wide, margins entire, plane, surfaces glabrous or puberulent.

peduncle longer than subtending petiole;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, 3–10 × 1–5 mm, papery, puberulent to densely glandular-pubescent;

flowers 15–35.

bracts broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, 7–11 × 2–8 mm, thinly papery, glabrate to minutely glandular-puberulent;

flowers 12–25.

tube greenish to coral pink, 6–18 mm, limb white to pale pink, 5–8 mm diam.

tube greenish pink, 3–8 mm, limb pale pink, 3–4 mm diam.

winged, turbinate, 3–8 × 3–6 mm, coriaceous, apex broadly tapered to prominent beak;

wings (2–)5 (when 2, folded together) truncate distally with conspicuous dilations, cavities extending throughout.

winged, ± obdeltate in profile, 6–9 × 5–8 mm, scarious, apex slightly beaked;

wings 5, thin walled, apex tapered to broadly obtuse, without dilations, cavities extending throughout.