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, 3–6 cm.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis straight;

buds pendent.

open racemes, axis recurved in bud, straight only 1–3 nodes distal to open flowers;

buds pendent, 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 2–3 mm;

sepals usually reflexed individually;

corolla rotate, petals reddish purple, often darker flecked or spotted, narrowly obdeltate to suborbiculate, unlobed, 11–25 × 7–18 mm, length 1.4–1.6 times width;

stamens 8, subequal, subtended by ciliate scales, anthers magenta or orange-red to yellow, pollen blue-gray or bright yellow to tan;

ovary shallowly 4-grooved, puberulent;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

15–35 mm;

subsessile.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

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

brown or gray, 1.5–1.8 mm, scaly-echinate, crest 0.1 mm.

= 36.