Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 5–40 cm, softly pubescent to scabrous, eglandular or viscid-glandular, especially distally, very rarely glabrous, with several pairs of leaves equaling or shorter than internodes.

erect, simple proximal to inflorescence, 30–60 cm, softly pubescent and stipitate-glandular.

sessile, or basal with short pseudopetiole;

blade linear to lanceolate or broadly ovate, base round to cuneate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, puberulent on both surfaces, sometimes glandular.

2 per node;

basal ± petiolate, petiole ciliate, blade oblanceolate, spatulate, 5–12 cm × 7–20 mm, apex acute, short-pubescent on both surfaces;

cauline in 3(–4) pairs, reduced distally, blade oblanceolate to lanceolate.

usually with single dichotomy, rarely double, open, bracteate, branches often elongate, flowers 1 per node;

bracts foliaceous.

open, narrow, with ascending branches, 9–25-flowered, bracteate, pubescent and stipitate-glandular;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, ciliate.

sharply reflexed at base, especially after anthesis, equaling calyx.

1/2–3 times longer than calyx.

nodding;

calyx obscurely 10-veined, broadly campanulate, lobed, 6–8 mm, enlarging to 13–16 mm in fruit, herbaceous, usually with short, dense pubescence throughout, often glandular-viscid, veins green, rarely purplish tinged, conspicuous pale commissures absent;

lobes ovate-triangular, 1/2 to equaling tube, herbaceous;

petals creamy white, often greenish abaxially, rarely pink tinged to dusky pink (subsp. campanulata), clawed, to 2 times calyx, claw villose, limb deeply divided and fan-shaped with many narrow, linear lobes, lobes rapidly curling, margins deeply divided or erose, appendages 2–4, to 2 mm;

stamens exserted;

filaments hairy at base;

styles 3, to 2 times calyx.

calyx prominently 10-veined, tubular in flower and fruit, umbilicate, somewhat constricted around carpophore, 15–38 × 3–6 mm, papery, sparsely pubescent and stipitate-glandular, veins parallel, green, with pale commissures, lobes 5, broadly ovate, 2–4 mm, scarious around green midrib;

corolla pink or rose red (rarely white), clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb oblong, fanlike, deeply 4-lobed, lobes divergent, lanceolate (rarely with only 2 lobes, each with small lateral tooth), (7–)10–20 mm, appendages linear, 2–4 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than petals;

stigmas 3, shorter than petals.

ovoid, ca. equaling calyx and often splitting it, opening by 6 broadly triangular teeth;

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

narrowly ovate-elliptic, longer than calyx, opening by 6 recurved teeth;

carpophore 4–18 mm.

brown, reniform, 2–2.5 mm broad, coarsely and ± evenly papillate;

papillae ca. as long as broad.

grayish brown, reniform, 1–1.5 mm, verrucate.

= 48.