Flora of North America species comparison

absent.

absent.

1.5–17 dm, glandular-hirsute;

bracts 2–3.5 × 0.5–1 cm, scarious at maturity.

racemes, erect at emergence from soil, axis fleshy and fibrous, persistent after seed dispersal, pink to reddish or brownish, 0.5–1.5 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower.

decurved, somewhat longer in fruit;

bracteoles absent.

sepals 4–6 × 2–3 mm;

corolla 6–9 mm, base not saccate, lobes reflexed, rounded to blunt;

stamens 3–5 mm;

anthers horizontal at anthesis, ca. 1 mm diam., awns to 1.5 mm;

ovary 3–4 × 4–6 mm, glabrous;

style 1–3 × 1 mm;

stigma yellowish, ca. 1.5 mm diam.

radially symmetric, nodding;

sepals 5, distinct, lanceolate-ovate;

petals 5, connate, cream to yellowish or white, without basal tubercles, (surfaces glabrous), corolla urceolate;

intrastaminal nectary disc present;

stamens 10, included;

filaments broader proximally than distally, glabrous;

anthers depressed-ovoid to ovoid, with awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 2 oval slits;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular;

placentation axile;

style straight, slender;

stigma capitate, without subtending ring of hairs.

capsular, pendulous, dehiscence acropetally loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence.

persistent, thin-segmented, remaining connate at apex, 5–10 × 7–14 mm.

0.2–0.5 mm including wing.

100+, ovoid, with broad, rounded, membranous wing attached at 1 end.

= 8.

= 16, 48.