Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, scarcely branched, 20–100 cm, glabrous.

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.

blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 3–16 cm × 3–12 mm, ± fleshy, base tapering into short petiole, apex acute, glabrous except for few cilia at base.

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

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

cymose, terminal and axillary, elongate, 1–3-flowered, open, bracteate, bracteolate, pedunculate;

peduncle slender, 2–10 cm;

bracts and bracteoles much-reduced, linear-lanceolate, often ciliate.

ascending.

slender, 2–10 cm.

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 tubular, 17–22 × 4–5 mm in flower, broadening to 7 mm in fruit but contracted around carpophore, glabrous, lobes lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins membranous and ciliate near broad, obtuse apex;

corolla scarlet, 2–21/2 times longer than calyx, limb lanceolate, narrowed into claw, 4–5 mm wide, margins entire or shallowly dentate, appendages linear, 4–5 mm;

stamens exserted;

styles 3, exserted.

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

carpophore 2–4 mm.

clavate, equaling calyx, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore 3–4 mm.

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

brown, broadly reniform, 2–2.3 mm, rugose.

= 48.

= 48.