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.

ascending, branched, wiry, leafy, slender, 10–20 cm, finely retrorse gray-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.

largest in mid-stem region;

blade linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1–4 cm × 1–5 mm, apex sharply acuminate, glandular-puberulent.

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.

with flowers usually solitary, terminal on branches.

1/4–2 times length of calyx.

shorter than calyx, glandular-puberulent.

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 10-veined, tubular, constricted around carpophore, umbilicate, 20–30 × 3–6 mm, papery, green, glandular-puberulent, lobes lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins membranous, apex acute;

corolla scarlet, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb obconic, 2-lobed, 7–10 mm, margins entire or crenate, appendages ± lacerate, 1–1.5 mm;

stamens exserted, ± equaling corolla lobes;

styles 3, exserted, ± equaling corolla lobes.

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

carpophore 1–2 mm.

narrowly ellipsoid, equaling calyx, opening by 6 recurved, brittle teeth;

carpophore ca. 5 mm.

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

papillae larger around margins.

brown, reniform, 1.5 mm, rugose in concentric rings on sides, margins papillate.

= 48.

= 48.