Flora of North America species comparison

creeping or prostrate;

bark ± smooth;

twigs unicellular-hairy and with flattened, glandular scales, scales often obscured by dense, ferruginous, long-crisped, multicellular hairs.

bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding;

twigs conspicuously multicellular eglandular-hairy (hairs unbranched), otherwise sparsely to densely unicellular-hairy.

persistent, (fragrant when crushed);

petiole with unicellular and/or peltate scales and, sometimes, ferruginous, long-crisped hairs;

blade ± linear, 2–5 × 1–4 cm (often much longer than wide), coriaceous, margins entire, revolute, glabrous, apex acute, abaxial surface with sparse to dense, glandular-peltate scales without broad rim, scales often obscured by dense (to sparse), ferruginous, long-crisped, multicellular hairs sometimes forming dense, ± uniform mat, adaxial surface rugose with scattered, lepidote scales and sometimes also with white, unicellular hairs along impressed midrib, midrib usually lanate.

deciduous;

petiole multicellular eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy;

blade ovate to obovate, 2.9–8.5 × 1.2–3.5 cm, thin, membranous to chartaceous, margins entire, plane, ciliate, eglandular-hairy, apex acute to obtuse, often mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy and/or eglandular-hairy, adaxial surface scattered eglandular-hairy, otherwise sparsely unicellular-hairy, glabrate in age.

slightly rounded, 10–35-flowered;

bracts lepidote abaxially, margins ciliate, long-crisped-hairy, sometimes also unicellular-hairy.

6–11-flowered;

bracts similar to bud scales.

5–26 mm, sparsely eglandular-hairy (hairs ferruginous, elongated), with ferruginous, long-crisped, unicellular and/or peltate scales, sometimes also long-stalked, multicellular glandular-hairy.

3–12 mm, eglandular-hairy, otherwise moderately unicellular-hairy to glabrate.

radially symmetric, opening after leaves (of flowering shoots), ± erect, not fragrant;

calyx lobes ca. 1 mm, outer surface densely to sparsely unicellular-hairy (hairs tan), and multicellular, stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs red) on margins;

corolla white to cream, without blotch, ± rotate, 2–8 mm, inner surface often densely unicellular-hairy, petals appearing distinct or only slightly connate basally, lobes 5–7 mm;

stamens 10, exserted, ± equal, 4.4–8.5 mm.

opening before or with development of leaves, erect to horizontal, acrid-scented;

calyx lobes 0.5–5 mm, glabrous or unicellular-hairy and eglandular-hairy, margins eglandular-hairy;

corolla bright red to orange-red or orange, with contrasting, darker-colored, orange or yellow-orange blotch on upper lobe, funnelform, 27–51 mm, scattered, multicellular eglandular-hairy (sometimes very weakly stipitate-glandular-hairy), otherwise sparsely to moderately unicellular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 8–22 mm (spreading nearly as broadly as tube is long), tube rather abruptly to gradually expanded into lobes, 17–34 mm, longer than lobes;

stamens 5, much exserted, ± unequal, 40–73 mm.

borne on apex of sharply recurved pedicels, 2.5–5 × 1–3 mm (only slightly longer than wide), with sparse to dense, lepidote scales, acropetally dehiscent.

borne on erect pedicels, 15–30 × 4.5–8 mm, densely, stiffly eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy.

somewhat elongated beyond narrow ends;

testa closely appressed.

without distinct tails, flattened portion of testa well devloped at each end;

testa expanded, dorsiventrally flattened, ± loose.

bud scales with lepidote scales and unicellular-hairy abaxially, margins unicellular-hairy.

bud scales glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy abaxially, margins densely unicellular-ciliate.

= 26, 52.

= 26.