Flora of North America species comparison

solitary or numerous, decumbent and rooting at base, becoming erect, 5–14(–25) cm, with gray, soft, curly to retrorsely crispate pubescence, rarely glandular.

1–many, erect, simple, slender, 10–30 cm, glandular-pubescent.

blade spatulate or narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, sometimes broadly so, 4–7(–10) cm × 8–12(–20) mm, reduced toward base, apex acute, pubescent on both surfaces, especially on midrib;

subterranean bractlike, papery.

connate basally, blade ciliate at base, pubescent on both surfaces;

basal numerous, ± petiolate, blade linear-oblanceolate, 1–5 cm × 1–5 mm, somewhat fleshy, apex ± acute;

cauline in 1–3 pairs, sessile, blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 1–4 cm × 1–3 mm, apex ± acute.

reduced to single, terminal flower or open, (1–)3–5(–9)-flowered cyme, bracteate;

bracts leaflike, reduced distally to ca. 1 cm.

cymose, terminal, (1–)3-flowered, rarely with 1–2 flowers at proximal nodes, bracteate, bracteolate;

bracts and bracteoles leaflike, 2–10 mm.

ascending, straight, 1–6 cm, with a short canescence.

usually shorter than calyx, rarely much longer, densely pubescent with purple-septate glandular hairs but not viscid.

calyx 10-veined, broadly tubular in flower, 12–25  5–8 mm, turbinate in fruit and swelling in middle to ca. 10 mm broad, canescent, rarely sparsely pubescent or glandular;

lobes lanceolate, 4–7 mm, with narrow, membranous margins, apex acute;

corolla coral pink or white, clawed, claw equaling calyx;

limb 4-lobed, usually deeply so, rarely 2-lobed with smaller lateral teeth, lobes 7–22 mm, appendages 2, linear, 1.5–3.5 mm (absent in subsp. bolanderi);

stamens slightly longer than corolla claw;

stigmas 3, slightly longer than corolla claw.

calyx prominently 10-veined, elliptic to campanulate, not inflated, not or slightly contracted at mouth, 8–9 × 3–5 mm in flower, 10–12 × 5–6 mm in fruit, to 2 times as long as broad, papery, veins green or purple, densely pubescent, with purple-septate hairs, lobes spreading, lanceolate-triangular, ca. 2 mm, margins purple tinged, round, broad, membranous;

corolla white to pink, clawed, ca. 11/4 times longer than calyx, claw equaling calyx, limb not differentiated from claw, obovate, emarginate to 2-lobed, shorter than calyx, appendages 2, ca. 1 mm;

stamens equaling petals;

styles 5, equaling petals.

ovoid to oblong, equaling calyx, dehiscing by 6 teeth;

carpophore 2–5 mm.

ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 5 recurved teeth;

carpophore shorter than 1 mm.

dark brown to black, reniform, ca. 2 mm broad, with concentric rings of small papillae.

brown, not winged, reniform, angular, less than 1 mm broad, finely papillate.

= 24, 48, 72.