Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 30–90 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

erect to decumbent, 20–200 cm, puberulent.

petiole 0–5 mm;

blade lanceolate, 2–9 cm, surfaces glaucous, glabrous.

petiole to 10 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 1–6 cm.

open racemes, axis erect;

buds pendent.

open or dense spikes or racemes, axis straight;

buds erect.

floral tube 3–4 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, usually dark red-purple, sparsely to densely puberulent abaxially, without long, spreading hairs;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink, usually with dark purplish spot near base, ± diamond-shaped, 13–15 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire;

stamens 8, unequal, outer anthers red, inner smaller, paler;

ovary with hairs as on sepals;

stigma exserted beyond anthers.

floral tube 3–10 mm;

sepals usually reflexed together to one side, or rarely in pairs or singly;

corolla bowl-shaped, petals pale pink to lavender, usually with red spot or mark near middle, obovate to fan-shaped, 15–60 mm, not lobed, apex sometimes shallowly notched or erose;

stamens 8, in 2 subequal sets;

ovary cylindrical and 4-grooved or fusiform and 8-grooved, puberulent;

stigma exserted or not beyond anthers.

15–30 mm.

15–40 mm, sometimes broader distally;

pedicel 0–13 mm.

unknown.

brown to grayish brown, 1–1.5 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm.

= 18.