Flora of North America species comparison

usually simple proximal to inflorescence, 30–50(–70) cm, puberulent and shortly stipitate-glandular, especially distally.

straggling to erect, much-branched, elongate, 20–70 cm, sparsely retrorse-puberulent.

2 per node, gradually reduced distally;

basal petiolate, blade oblanceolate, spatulate, 5–9 cm × 7–15 mm (including petiole), apex acute to obtuse, usually glabrous adaxially, sparsely pubescent abaxially;

cauline in 4–6 pairs, blade linear-lanceolate, 1–6(–8) cm × 2–6 mm, puberulent and shortly stipitate-glandular.

2 per node, sessile with spatulate, broad, ciliate base, blade oblanceolate, 1.3–5 cm × 4–15 mm, apex acuminate, glabrous or sparsely setose.

thyrsate, 3–25-flowered, open, bracteate, pedunculate, stipitate-glandular, viscid;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2–25 mm, apex acuminate.

cymose, open, compound, pedunculate;

bracts leaflike, lanceolate, 3–15 mm, apex acuminate;

peduncle ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular.

ascending.

ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular.

calyx prominently 10-veined, narrowly campanulate, umbilicate, somewhat clavate and constricted below middle around carpophore, 9–15 × 3–4 mm in flower, broadening to 7 mm in fruit, membranous, shortly stipitate-glandular, veins parallel, slender, tinged dark red, with pale commissures, lobes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 2–3 mm, margins scarious;

corolla creamy white, sometimes pink tinged, clawed, claw equaling calyx, glabrous, broadening only slightly into limb 3–8 mm, limb with 4–6 linear lobes, some splitting to 10 linear segments, appendages 4–6, linear, 1–1.5 mm, apex acute;

stamens ca. equaling petals;

filaments glabrous;

stigmas 3(–5), ca. equaling petals.

calyx prominently 10-veined, clavate, with long, slender tube surrounding carpophore, 17–20 × 4–6 mm, veins parallel, green or purple with purple stipitate glands, with pale commissures, lobes lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins ciliate, apex acute;

corolla bright pink, clawed, claw slightly longer than calyx, limb obovate, unlobed, ca. 1 cm, appendages 2, oblong, 2 mm, entire;

stamens included in tip of calyx tube;

styles 3, exserted.

ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 (or 8 or 10) very brittle teeth;

carpophore 2–4 mm.

ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 recurved teeth;

carpophore 9–10 mm, pubescent.

brown, ± reniform, angular, glossy, shallowly tuberculate.

dull and very dark brown, almost globose, inrolled like a clenched fist, 1–1.3 mm, sides with radiating wrinkles, finely tuberculate abaxially.

= 48.

= 24 (Balearic Islands).