Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

erect, to 8 cm, glabrous or puberulent.

petiole 15–40 mm;

blade elliptic to ovate, 3–6 cm.

sessile;

blade linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1.5–6cm, surfaces glabrate.

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

buds pendent, tip acute.

racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;

buds pendent.

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.

floral tube 3–7 mm, puberulent with spreading hairs and shorter glandular hairs;

corolla bowl-shaped, petals pinkish lavender, lighter proximally, often with dark reddish spot at base, broadly obovate or obdeltate, 10–30 mm;

stamens 8, subequal;

ovary 8-grooved, sparsely puberulent, hairs mostly glandular;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

10–35 mm;

pedicel 5–15 mm.

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

brown, 2 mm, minutely scaly, crest 0.5 mm, prominent.

= 14.