Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

erect, 30–100 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

petiole 10–30 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–5 cm.

petiole 0–10 mm;

blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1–6 cm.

open racemes, axis recurved only at tip in bud, straight 4+ nodes distal to open flowers;

buds pendent, narrowly obovoid, tip obtuse.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis erect;

buds pendent.

floral tube 2–4 mm;

sepals reflexed individually;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-purple, mottled or spotted reddish purple, ± rhombic, unlobed, 6–12(–14) ×3–7 mm, length 2.2–3 times width;

stamens 8, subequal, subtended by ciliate scales, pollen blue-gray;

ovary shallowly 4-grooved;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

floral tube 2–5 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, green to dark red, sparsely to densely puberulent abaxially, with longer, straight, spreading hairs to 3 mm;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink to salmon or dark reddish purple, triangular or diamond-shaped to suborbiculate, 10–25 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire, rarely somewhat expanded at base;

stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers red, inner smaller, paler;

ovary with hairs as on sepals;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

10–20 mm;

pedicel 0–4 mm.

15–30 mm.

brown, 1–1.5 mm, scaly.

brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest inconspicuous.

= 10.

= 18.