Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 30–90 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

erect, 30–100 cm, strigillose.

petiole 0–5 mm;

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

petiole to 15 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–8 cm.

open racemes, axis erect;

buds pendent.

open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;

buds pendent.

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 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.

15–30 mm.

10–25 mm.

unknown.

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

= 18.