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

petiole 0–2 mm;

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

petiole to 20 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–5 cm.

open or dense racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

racemes, axis straight or recurved;

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 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.

10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm.

15–40 mm;

subsessile.

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

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

= 14.