Flora of North America species comparison

stout or slender.

trailing, procumbent, or ascending, much-branched, 5–25 cm.

erect to spreading, simple or branched, terete.

petiole not winged, (0.1–)0.5–1(–3) cm;

blade 1-veined, spatulate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.6–2.5 × 0.3–1.4 cm.

connate proximally, petiolate or sessile;

blade 3(–5)-veined, spatulate to elliptic or ovate, apex acute or rounded.

terminal, dense to open, lax cymes;

bracts paired, foliaceous;

involucel bracteoles absent.

2–6 mm.

erect.

sometimes double;

calyx usually purple, not cleft, 7–12 mm, glandular-pubescent;

petals red or pink to white, blade 8–15 mm.

sepals connate proximally into tube, greenish, reddish, or purple, 7–25 mm, tube 15–25-veined, oblong-cylindric, terete, commissures between sepals absent;

lobes green, reddish, or purple, 3–5-veined, triangular-attenuate, shorter than tube, margins white, scarious, apex acute or acuminate;

petals 5 (doubled in some cultivars), pink to white, clawed, auricles absent, with 2 coronal scales, blade apex entire or emarginate;

nectaries at filament bases;

stamens 10, adnate with petals to carpophore;

filaments briefly connate proximally;

staminodes absent (present in some cultivars);

ovary 1-locular;

styles 2(–3), filiform, 12–15 mm, glabrous proximally;

stigmas 2(–3), linear along adaxial surface of styles, papillate (30x).

6–8 mm.

cylindric to ovoid, opening by 4(–6) ascending or recurving teeth;

carpophore present.

1.6–2 mm wide.

15–75, dark brown, reniform, laterally compressed, papillose, marginal wing absent, appendage absent;

embryo peripheral, curved.

spreading, lax.

= 7.

= 28 (Europe).