Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched distally, with 2–4 pairs of reduced leaves, 15–50 cm; flowering shoots usually subscapose, coarsely pubescent with hairs colorless, septate, and long, viscid-glandular, especially distally.

several, erect, unbranched proximal to inflorescence, 10–40 cm, puberulent.

mostly basal;

basal long-petiolate, blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 6–15 cm × 10–30 mm, narrowed to base, not fleshy;

cauline few, sessile, reduced distally, blade lanceolate, 0.8–4 cm × 3–8 mm, not fleshy.

mostly basal, petiolate, blade oblanceolate or spatulate, 1.5–5 cm × 2–6 mm, apex acute, glabrous except for a few cilia on petiole;

cauline leaves in 2–4 pairs, reduced distally, blade linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2–7 cm × 2–6 mm.

thyrsate, subscapose, rarely simple, (3–)5–12(rarely more)-flowered, open, bracteate, bracteolate, densely pubescent, glandular, viscid; alternate branches often suppressed or developing unevenly;

proximal nodes often with single flower;

bracts and bracteoles resembling stem leaves but much reduced.

cymose, 1–3-flowered, open, bracteate;

cyme 1, terminal, often with 1 flower at next node;

bracts linear-lanceolate, 5–20 mm.

1/4–2 times length of calyx.

erect, from 0.5 cm, lengthening to 3 cm in fruit, gray and somewhat retrorse-puberulent with stipitate-glandular hairs.

calyx prominently 10-veined, veins parallel, those of lobes broadened distally, tubular in flower, 10–13 × 2.5–4 mm, campanulate-ovate in fruit, broadest near middle and contracted towards mouth, not contracted proximally, 12–18 × 5–8 mm, with pale commissures, lobes 5, erect, narrowly lanceolate, 4–6 mm, margins narrow, membranous proximally, apex blunt, with glandular hairs;

petals 11/2–2 times longer than calyx tube;

corolla pink, clawed, claw equaling calyx tube, limb obovate, deeply 2-lobed, 5–10 mm, appendages 2, linear, ca. 1.5 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than petals;

styles 3–5, included in calyx, ± equaling calyx or corolla.

calyx prominently 10-veined, veins parallel, green, with pale commissures, broadened in lobes, narrowly campanulate and 7–11 × 3–4 mm in flower, campanulate and 8–12 × 4–5 mm in fruit, tending to broaden proximally, glandular-puberulent, lobes 5, erect, lanceolate, 1–2 mm, apex blunt;

petals cream to pink, often tinged with dusky purple, slightly longer than calyx, limb 1–2 mm, unlobed or apex notched;

stamens equaling calyx;

stigmas 3, equaling calyx.

conic to ellipsoid, equaling calyx lobes, opening by 6–10 recurved teeth;

carpophore 1–2 mm.

narrowly ovoid, 10–13 mm, slightly longer than calyx, opening with 6 outwardly curved teeth;

carpophore shorter than 1 mm.

dark brown, reniform, 1–1.5 mm, prominently papillate;

papillae larger around margins.

brown, reniform, angular, 0.7–1 mm, margins with large, balloonlike papillae, sides rugose.

= 48.

= 48.