Flora of North America species comparison

simple, 5–15 cm, pubescent and viscid, with stipitate glands.

simple, branched in inflorescence, (10–)20–40(–70) cm.

basal with blade 1-veined, oblanceolate, broadly spatulate, 1–4 cm × 2–8 mm, apex obtuse to acute, glandular-puberulent throughout, rarely subglabrous adaxially;

cauline in 3–6 pairs, sessile, reduced distally, blade lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or oblanceolate, 2–4 cm × 2–8 mm, apex ± acute, glandular-puberulent throughout.

basal withering before flowering, blade lanceolate-spatulate, 2–5 cm;

cauline sessile to amplexicaulous, blade lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, 1–6 cm × 5–25 mm, apex acute.

usually with solitary terminal flower, sometimes cymose, to 8-flowered, open.

cymose, bracteate;

cyme capitate or with flowers clustered at end of slender branches;

bracts lanceolate-acicular, 2–10 mm.

erect or angled near tip with flowers slightly nodding, 1–3 times longer than calyx, glandular-puberulent, often densely so.

0.1–0.5 cm.

calyx prominently 10-veined, campanulate, not contracted proximally around carpophore, 15–20 × 4–8 mm, papery, margins dentate, veins parallel, usually purple tinged, with pale commissures;

lobes ovate, 3–5 mm, glandular-puberulent, midrib triangular, margins purple tinged, broad, membranous, apex obtuse;

corolla bright pink, clawed, claw equaling calyx, broad and ligulate but abruptly contracted into limb, limb broadly cuneate, shallowly to deeply 2–4-lobed, 5–15 mm, lobes broad or narrow, appendages absent or to 2 mm, margins erose;

stamens slightly longer than corolla claw;

stigmas 3(–5), slightly longer than corolla claw.

calyx usually purple tinged, 10-veined, elongate, clavate, lobed, constricted proximally into narrow tube, 13–17 × 2.5–4 mm, rather membranous;

lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse;

petals pink (rarely white), unlobed, limb obovate, ca. 5 mm, base cuneate into claw 6–8 mm, auricles absent, appendages linear to lanceolate, 2–3 mm, apex acute;

stamens slightly longer than petal claws;

styles 3(–4), exserted.

equaling calyx, opening by 6 (or 8 or 10) lanceolate teeth;

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

oblong, 7–10 mm, opening by 6 (or 8) spreading teeth;

carpophore 7–8 mm, glabrous.

brown, broadly reniform, flattened, 2–2.5 mm, rugose, more coarsely so on margins.

dark brown, reniform-rotund, less than 1 mm diam., rugose.

= 96.

= 24 (Europe).