Flora of North America species comparison

erect, usually simple, 30–150 cm, with short, dense, eglandular pubescence, sparsely so toward base.

several, straggling to erect, freely branched, 2–7 cm, pilose and glandular, sparsely so proximally.

sessile, 2 per node;

blade prominently 3–5-veined, ovate-acuminate, round at base, (4–)6–10(–13) cm × (20–)30–50(–90) mm, appressed-pubescent on both surfaces.

basal leaves withered at time of flowering, distal sessile, proximal petiolate, largest on mid to distal stem;

blade subrotund to broadly ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 cm × 20–70 mm, base cuneate into petiole, apex short-acuminate, sparsely short-pilose.

paniculate, narrow, many-flowered, open, bracteate, pedunculate, 10–50 × 3–5 cm, densely puberulent;

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

peduncle ascending.

cymose, open, few-flowered, leafy, bracteate;

bracts resembling distal leaves.

ascending, recurved near apex, ca. equaling calyx.

1–3(–4) cm, viscid, with long septate-glandular hairs.

nocturnal;

calyx prominently 10-veined, tubular to narrowly campanulate and 6–9 × 3–4 mm in flower, turbinate and 10–12 × 4–5 mm in fruit, narrowed proximally around carpophore, veins parallel, green, broad, with pale commissures, puberulent, sometimes with few glands, lobes triangular-acute, 2–3 mm;

corolla white, clawed, claw equaling calyx, broadened into limb, limb obtriangular, deeply lobed, 7–9 mm, lobes ca. 8, linear, appendages minute;

stamens slightly longer than corolla;

styles 3, ca. 2 times as long as corolla.

calyx indistinctly veined, tubular, broadened distally, constricted towards base around carpophore, ± umbilicate, 20–25 × 5–8 mm, herbaceous, glandular-pilose, lobes triangular, 3–4 mm, margins narrow, membranous, ciliate;

corolla scarlet, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb deeply 2-lobed, 10–15 mm, lobes lanceolate, sometimes with 2 smaller lateral teeth, ciliate, appendages saccate, 1–1.5 mm, with clear area abaxially;

stamens shortly exserted;

styles 3, shortly exserted.

narrowly ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 3 (splitting into 6) ascending teeth;

carpophore 2–2.5 mm.

narrowly ellipsoid, not distending calyx, included within it, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore 6–8 mm.

dark brown, reniform, 0.8–1.5 mm, shallowly tuberculate.

gray, broadly reniform, plump, ca. 1 mm, shallowly papillate.

= 48.

= 48.