Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

erect or decumbent, to 20 cm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

petiole 15–40 mm;

blade elliptic to ovate, 3–6 cm.

petiole to 20 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–5 cm.

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

buds pendent, tip acute.

racemes, axis straight or recurved;

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 20–35 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, not petal-like, green to magenta;

corolla rotate, petals pink, broadly fan-shaped, 15–25 mm, length equal to width, without claw, 3-lobed, middle lobe longer and much narrower, linear to oblanceolate;

stamens 4, filaments wider distally;

ovary inconspicuously grooved;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

15–40 mm;

subsessile.

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

reddish brown, 2–3 mm, scaly-tuberculate, crest to 0.8 mm, conspicuous.

= 14.