Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 100 cm, puberulent.

erect, to 80 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

petiole 15–40 mm;

blade elliptic to ovate, 3–6 cm.

petiole 0–2 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–6 cm.

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

buds pendent, tip acute.

open racemes, axis straight;

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;

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.

20–30 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

15–25 mm;

pedicel 0–5 mm.

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

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