Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

erect, 30–100 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

petiole 15–40 mm;

blade elliptic to ovate, 3–6 cm.

petiole 0–10 mm;

blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1–6 cm.

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

buds pendent, tip acute.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis erect;

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 2–5 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, green to dark red, sparsely to densely puberulent abaxially, with longer, straight, spreading hairs to 3 mm;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink to salmon or dark reddish purple, triangular or diamond-shaped to suborbiculate, 10–25 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire, rarely somewhat expanded at base;

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

ovary with hairs as on sepals;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

15–30 mm.

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

brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest inconspicuous.

= 18.