Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally (or, rarely, basally), 3.5–15 dm, at least sparsely hirsute basally.

soon withered.

petiolate (median 0.4–3 cm);

blade lanceolate to oblong, 1.5–9.5 cm × 3–30 mm (smaller distally), margins denticulate to subentire (proximal blade margins dentate).

without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers, (considerably elongated in fruit).

sepals spreading, oblong, 3.5–5.5 × 1–1.7 mm;

petals (spreading), white to lavender, 4–8 × 2–4 mm, not channeled or crisped, claw undifferentiated from blade;

filaments (spreading), subequal, 3.5–5 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong, equal, 1.5–2 mm, (coiled after dehiscence).

ascending to strongly reflexed (slender or thickened), 3–10 mm.

erect or reflexed, (straight), terete, 3–6.7 cm × 1.2–2 mm;

valves each with prominent midvein, (usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent);

ovules 40–54 per ovary;

style (subconical or cylindrical), 1–4 mm;

stigma subentire.

(brown), 1.4–1.8 × 1–1.3 mm.

= 28.