Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 30–100 cm, glabrous, glaucous.

erect, 30–100 cm, strigillose.

petiole 0–10 mm;

blade lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 1–6 cm.

petiole to 15 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–8 cm.

open racemes, sometimes branched, axis erect;

buds pendent.

open racemes, axis recurved at tip in bud;

buds pendent.

floral tube 2–5 mm;

sepals reflexed together to 1 side, green to dark red, sparsely to densely puberulent abaxially, with longer, straight, spreading hairs to 3 mm;

corolla rotate, petals lavender-pink to salmon or dark reddish purple, triangular or diamond-shaped to suborbiculate, 10–25 mm, claw slender, equal to or longer than blade, entire, rarely somewhat expanded at base;

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.

brown, 1–1.5 mm, tuberculate, crest inconspicuous.

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

= 18.