Flora of North America species comparison

procumbent or creeping, rooting at nodes, sometimes climbing-sprawling but not twining, densely short-tomentose to hirsute-villous, hairs spreading to erect, irregularly oriented.

3, blades elliptic to broadly elliptic, (14–)20–55 × (10–)15–35 mm, herbaceous, thickened-leathery, veins not raised, apex rounded to truncate, commonly shallowly retuse, surfaces much darker adaxially, sparsely, persistently strigose-sericeous adaxially with loosely appressed hairs.

flowers 5–12(–25) in pseudoracemes on distal 1/4–1/2 of axis, in fascicles;

axis 20–100(–130) mm.

calyx 7–8 mm, villous, lobes greenish yellow to tan on inner surface when dry;

corolla not persisting after anthesis, pink to purple or rose-purple, lighter when dry, 12–15 mm.

straight, 30–45 × 3–4(–5) mm, densely villous-hirsute.

7–11.