Flora of North America species comparison

erect, simple proximal to inflorescence or with few basal branches, branched distally, to 75 cm.

several, simple proximal to inflorescence, 30–80 cm, puberulent, becoming subglabrous near base.

2 per node, gradually reduced distally;

basal blades oblanceolate, 6–12(–14) cm × 20–45 mm;

cauline blades ascending, conspicuously veined, broadly elliptic to lanceolate, 1–11 cm × 3–40 mm, apex acute, shortly acuminate, densely pubescent on both surfaces.

withering proximally, in whorls of 4, ± sessile to short-petiolate, largest in mid-stem region;

blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 cm × 4–40 mm, apex acuminate, puberulent on both surfaces, sparsely so adaxially.

cymose, 3–15-flowered, bracteate;

cyme open, flowers held on ascending branches;

bracts leaflike, narrowly lanceolate, 1–5 cm, apex acuminate.

paniculate, open, bracteate, bracteolate, branches elongate, puberulent;

bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 2–15 mm.

ascending, straight, 1/3–3 times longer than calyx.

straight, often with 1 or 2 pairs of bracteoles, slender, 1/2–3 times calyx, glabrous or scabrous-puberulous.

nocturnal, 20–25 mm diam.;

calyx prominently 10-veined, ovate-elliptic, fusiform, narrowed to both ends and constricted around carpophore, 15–24(–40) × ca. 3 mm in flower, swelling to 10 mm diam. in fruit, thin and papery, margins dentate, with pale commissures;

lobes erect, often recurved in fruit, linear-lanceolate, long, narrow, (3–)5–10(–15) mm, apex acuminate, short-pubescent, glandular, interspersed with long eglandular hairs, veins anastomosing;

corolla white, often pink tinged, clawed, claw equaling calyx lobes, limb deeply 2-lobed, lobes usually narrow, appendages 0.5–1.5 mm broad, margins entire or erose;

stamens shorter than petals;

styles 3, shorter than petals.

calyx obscurely 10-veined, broadly campanulate, becoming obtriangular in fruit, 7–11 × 6–10 mm, herbaceous, margins dentate, very narrow, membranous, sparsely puberulent, lobes broadly triangular, 2–3 mm;

corolla white, ca. 2 times longer than calyx, limb obtriangular, narrowed into claw, divided ca. 1/2 its length into 4–12 lobes, appendages absent;

stamens equaling petals;

styles 3, longer than petals.

ovoid, constricted at mouth, equaling or slightly longer than calyx tube, opening by 6 recurved teeth;

carpophore 1–3 mm.

globose, opening by 3 broadly triangular teeth;

carpophore 2–3 mm.

dark brown to black, with gray bloom, broadly reniform, 0.8–1 mm, strongly tuberculate.

dark brown, reniform, ca. 1 mm, papillate.

= 24.

= (34), 48.