Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 20–70 cm, glabrous and glaucous distally, usually puberulent basally.

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

petiole to 10 mm;

blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–4 cm.

petiole 15–40 mm;

blade elliptic to ovate, 2–6 cm.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis straight;

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 2 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side;

corolla rotate, petals oblanceolate to obovate, 8–12 mm, claw tapered, shorter than blade, apex entire;

stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers orange-red, inner smaller, paler.

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.

15–35 mm;

subsessile.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–3 mm.

brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate (especially on raphe), crest inconspicuous.

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

= 36.