Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or rarely decumbent, to 100 cm, glabrous and sometimes glaucous or sparsely to densely puberulent, sometimes mixed with longer, spreading hairs.

petiole to 20 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–5 cm.

petiole 0–2 mm;

blade linear or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–7 cm.

racemes, axis straight or recurved;

buds pendent.

open or dense racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

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 2–10 mm;

sepals reflexed individually or in pairs;

corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender to purple, purplish red, or dark wine-red, often with red or purple spot near middle, tip, or base, 9–25 mm;

stamens 8, subequal;

ovary 8-grooved, length less than 8 times width;

stigma as long as or exserted beyond anthers.

15–40 mm;

subsessile.

10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm.

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

brown or gray, 1–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm.

= 14.