Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, few-branched, 50–100 cm, hispid.

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.

rounded into tightly sessile base;

blade lanceolate to ovate, 5–12 cm × 20–60 mm, apex acute, sparsely scabrous-pubescent on both surfaces, scabrous-ciliate on abaxial margins and midrib;

basal leaf blades broadly spatulate.

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

subcapitate between terminal pair of leaves, 10–50-flowered, congested, bracteate;

bracts lanceolate, herbaceous, ciliate.

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

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.

sessile to subsessile, 10–16 mm diam.;

calyx 10-veined, narrow and tubular in flower, clavate in fruit, 12–17 mm, margins dentate, lobes triangular-lanceolate, 2.5–2.5 mm, coarsely hirsute;

petals scarlet, sometimes white or pink, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb spreading, obovate, deeply 2-lobed, 6–11 mm, shorter than calyx, appendages tubular, 2–3 mm;

stamens equaling calyx;

stigmas 5, equaling calyx.

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

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

ovoid, 8–10 mm, opening by 5 teeth;

carpophore 4–6 mm.

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

dark reddish brown, reniform-rotund, 0.7–1 mm diam., coarsely papillate;

papillae ca. as high as wide.

= 96.

= 24 (Europe).