Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, to 80 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

petiole to 10 mm;

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

petiole 0–2 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–6 cm.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis straight;

buds pendent.

open racemes, axis straight;

buds pendent.

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 2–5 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side;

corolla rotate, petals lavender to reddish purple, lavender-pink, or white, often with white-surrounded dark reddish purple spot distally, clawed, 2-lobed, with slender central tooth, 1–3 mm, 6–20 mm;

stamens 8, in 2 unequal sets, outer anthers lavender to purple, inner smaller, paler;

ovary 8-grooved;

stigma exserted or not beyond anthers.

15–35 mm;

subsessile.

15–25 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

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

brown, 1.3–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest minute.

= 36.