Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 90 cm, glabrous or puberulent.

erect, 30–100 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

petiole to 11 mm;

blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–7 cm.

petiole 0–5 mm;

blade bright green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1–6 cm, surfaces not glaucous, glabrous.

racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;

buds pendent.

open racemes, axis erect;

buds pendent.

floral tube 1.5–10 mm;

corolla bowl-shaped, petals pink to lavender or light purple, often lighter toward base, unspotted or with red spot near middle or base, obovate or obdeltate, 6–40 mm;

stamens 8, subequal;

ovary 4-grooved, puberulent;

stigma exserted or not beyond anthers.

floral tube 1–3 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, usually green, sparsely to densely puberulent inside, without longer, spreading hairs;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink or white, often with dark purplish spot, usually diamond-shaped, 5–15 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire;

stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers red, inner smaller, paler;

ovary with hairs as on sepals;

stigma subequal to anthers.

25–50 mm, usually wider distally;

pedicel 0–10 mm.

10–30 mm.

brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm.

brown, 1 mm, tuberculate, crest inconspicuous.

= 18.