Flora of North America species comparison

erect, to 70 cm.

petiole to 25 mm (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves);

blade usually lanceolate to hastate, rarely elliptic, basally lobed, sometime with 2 pairs of lobes, or unlobed, to 14 × 4.5 cm, base obliquely obtuse to acute, margins shallowly serrate, apex acute.

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, to 17 cm, margins usually deeply lobed to dentate, rarely entire.

usually green with prominent white base usually conspicuously extending outwards from midvein, rarely green, usually ovate, rarely lanceolate, 3.3–6.2 × 1.5–3.2 mm, width 1/4–7/8 length, not concealing capsule, margins usually 3–7-lobed, rarely entire.

(fruiting) 0.5–0.8 × 1–2 mm (often appearing absent because thick and continuous with capsule).

sepals 2–5 mm;

petals red to orange proximally, orange to yellow distally, 4–7(–10) mm, apex retuse;

stamens 20+, 3–7 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles (3–)3.5–6 mm.

petals orange, 5–7 × 2.3–4 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy on apex and abaxially near apex;

stamens 8–12, 4–5.3 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform;

styles 3.8–5.5 mm.

clavate, 8–28 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 70° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

clavate or funnelform, 12–27 × 3–5 mm, base tapering gradually, capsule and pedicel not well-differentiated.

15–35, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface tuberculate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges more than or equal to 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

8–12 per capsule, pyriform, without transverse folds.

= 54.

= 20.