Flora of North America species comparison

stout or slender.

erect, simple or branched distally, 30–90 cm.

erect to spreading, simple or branched, terete.

petiole often absent or winged, 0.1–1.5 cm;

blade strongly 3(–5)-veined, elliptic to oblanceolate or ovate, 3–11(–15) × 1.5–4.5 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.

1–5 mm.

erect.

sometimes double;

calyx green or reddish, often cleft, 15–25 mm, glabrous or rarely with scattered trichomes;

petals pink to white, often drying to dull purple, 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).

ca. 15–20 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.

dense to open.

= 7.

= 28.