Flora of North America species comparison

erect or rarely decumbent, to 100 cm, glabrous and sometimes glaucous or sparsely to densely puberulent, sometimes mixed with longer, spreading hairs.

erect, to 8 cm, glabrous or puberulent.

petiole 0–2 mm;

blade linear or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–7 cm.

sessile;

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

open or dense racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;

buds pendent.

floral tube 2–10 mm;

sepals reflexed individually or in pairs;

corolla bowl-shaped, petals lavender to purple, purplish red, or dark wine-red, often with red or purple spot near middle, tip, or base, 9–25 mm;

stamens 8, subequal;

ovary 8-grooved, length less than 8 times width;

stigma as long as or 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.

10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm.

10–35 mm;

pedicel 5–15 mm.

brown or gray, 1–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.2 mm.

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

= 14.