Flora of North America species comparison

erect, simple or branched, slender, to 80 cm, subglabrous to retrorsely puberulent especially proximally, distal internodes frequently glutinous.

simple proximal to inflorescence, 20–80 cm, glandular-pubescent, often subglabrous near base.

2 per node;

blade with margins ciliate toward base, apex acute to obtuse;

basal blades oblanceolate, spatulate;

cauline narrowly oblanceolate to linear, 1–9 cm × 2–15 mm, scabrous or puberulent, rarely glabrous on both surfaces.

basal numerous, tufted, petiolate, petiole ciliate, blade oblanceolate, 3–10 cm × 8–18 mm, base spatulate, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous on both surfaces, rarely puberulent;

cauline in 2–4 pairs, broadly petiolate to sessile, reduced distally, blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 1–10(–30) cm × 4–16(–30) mm, margins ciliate, apex acute, shortly acuminate, glabrous.

cymose, open, branches usually ascending, several- to many-flowered, 1-flowered in depauperate specimens.

open, with ascending, often elongate branches, (3–)7–11(–20)-flowered, bracteate, glandular-pubescent, often densely so, viscid;

bracts leaflike, lanceolate, 4–40 mm.

erect in flower, sharply deflexed at base in fruit, 1/2–1 times length of calyx.

mature calyx prominently 10-veined, campanulate to ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, margins dentate, glabrous, veins parallel, with pale commissures;

lobes usually purple, triangular, acute, ca. 1 mm;

petals white, often suffused with dark red, rarely wholly dark red, limb ovate, usually 2-lobed, ca. 2.5 mm, slightly longer than calyx, rarely petals absent, claw narrow, appendages 0.1–0.4 mm;

stamens included;

styles 3;

stigmas included.

calyx green to purple, 10-veined, tubular to narrowly obconic in flower, 16–22 × 5–6 mm, clavate and swelling to 7–12 mm in fruit, glandular-pubescent, lobes lanceolate to oblong, 3–4 mm, margins usually narrow, membranous, apex acute or obtuse;

corolla scarlet, 2 times longer than calyx, clawed, claw ciliate, gradually widening into limb, longer than calyx, limb obtriangular to oblong, deeply 2-lobed with 2 small lateral teeth, 10–14 mm, glabrous or nearly so, appendages 2, tubular, 3 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than petals;

styles 3(–4), equaling stamens.

equaling calyx, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore less than 1 mm.

ovoid, equaling calyx, opening by 3 (or 4) teeth that sometimes split into 6 (or 8);

carpophore 2–3(–4) mm.

dull gray-black, reniform, 0.5–0.8 mm diam., finely papillate.

ash gray, reniform, 1.5 mm, with large inflated papillae.

= 24.

= 48.