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.

petiole 0–2 mm;

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

blades broadly lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1.5–4.5 cm, length usually less than 5 times width.

open or dense racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

dense racemes.

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.

petals lavender to purple or purplish red, often with darker spot near tip, 10–25 mm;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

10–30 mm, beak 0–2 mm.

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

= 52.