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, 20–70 cm, glabrous and glaucous distally, usually puberulent basally.

petiole 0–2 mm;

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

petiole to 10 mm;

blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–4 cm.

open or dense racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis straight;

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 2 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side;

corolla rotate, petals oblanceolate to obovate, 8–12 mm, claw tapered, shorter than blade, apex entire;

stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers orange-red, inner smaller, paler.

10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm.

15–35 mm;

subsessile.

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

brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate (especially on raphe), crest inconspicuous.

= 36.