Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 30–90 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

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

petiole 0–5 mm;

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

petiole to 10 mm;

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

open racemes, axis erect;

buds pendent.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis straight;

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 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.

15–30 mm.

15–35 mm;

subsessile.

unknown.

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

= 18.

= 36.