Flora of North America species comparison

erect or decumbent, to 20 cm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

petiole to 20 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–5 cm.

petiole 15–40 mm;

blade elliptic to ovate, 2–6 cm.

racemes, axis straight or recurved;

buds pendent.

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

buds pendent, fusiform, base slightly swollen, tip acute.

floral tube 20–35 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, not petal-like, green to magenta;

corolla rotate, petals pink, broadly fan-shaped, 15–25 mm, length equal to width, without claw, 3-lobed, middle lobe longer and much narrower, linear to oblanceolate;

stamens 4, filaments wider distally;

ovary inconspicuously grooved;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

floral tube 2–4 mm;

sepals reflexed individually;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink, often dark-flecked, obdeltate to suborbiculate, unlobed, 13–19 ×7–12 mm, length 1.6–2 times width;

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

ovary shallowly 4-grooved, puberulent;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

15–40 mm;

subsessile.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–3 mm.

reddish brown, 2–3 mm, scaly-tuberculate, crest to 0.8 mm, conspicuous.

light brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5–2.5 mm, minutely tuberculate, crest 0.2 mm.

= 14.