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, 30–100 cm, strigillose.

petiole 0–2 mm;

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

petiole to 15 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–8 cm.

open or dense racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

open 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 1–4 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side;

corolla rotate to bowl-shaped, petals purplish to pale pink, lavender, or bright pink to magenta, often red-flecked, broadly to narrowly fan-shaped, 10–25 mm, shallowly to deeply 2-lobed;

stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers lavender, inner ones smaller, paler.

10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm.

10–25 mm.

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

brown, 1 mm, minutely scaly to puberulent, crest inconspicuous.