Flora of North America species comparison

cauline (crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade spatulate, unlobed or minutely 3-toothed or -lobed apically, 4–11 mm, leathery, margins entire, (not cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

cauline, (not imbricate), opposite (distalmost alternate);

petiole absent;

blade oblanceolate to elliptic, unlobed, 5–9 mm, fleshy, margins entire, ciliate, with 1(–3) lime-secreting hydathodes, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous.

3–6-flowered cymes, 2.5–12 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered cymes, ebracteate, 3–4 cm, glabrate.

sepals erect, ovate to oblong, margins sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to cream, yellow-spotted proximally, red- or orange-spotted distally, these often faded in dried specimens, elliptic, 4–6 mm, much longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

sepals erect, ovate, margins ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals salmon to flesh colored, sometimes red or orange, rarely yellow, sometimes violet tinged, not spotted, obovate to oblanceolate, 12–15 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary to 1/4 inferior.

= 26.

= 52.