Flora of North America species comparison

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

solitary or numerous, decumbent and rooting at base, becoming erect, 5–14(–25) cm, with gray, soft, curly to retrorsely crispate pubescence, rarely glandular.

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.

blade spatulate or narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, sometimes broadly so, 4–7(–10) cm × 8–12(–20) mm, reduced toward base, apex acute, pubescent on both surfaces, especially on midrib;

subterranean bractlike, papery.

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

reduced to single, terminal flower or open, (1–)3–5(–9)-flowered cyme, bracteate;

bracts leaflike, reduced distally to ca. 1 cm.

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

ascending, straight, 1–6 cm, with a short canescence.

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 10-veined, broadly tubular in flower, 12–25  5–8 mm, turbinate in fruit and swelling in middle to ca. 10 mm broad, canescent, rarely sparsely pubescent or glandular;

lobes lanceolate, 4–7 mm, with narrow, membranous margins, apex acute;

corolla coral pink or white, clawed, claw equaling calyx;

limb 4-lobed, usually deeply so, rarely 2-lobed with smaller lateral teeth, lobes 7–22 mm, appendages 2, linear, 1.5–3.5 mm (absent in subsp. bolanderi);

stamens slightly longer than corolla claw;

stigmas 3, slightly longer than corolla claw.

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

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

ovoid to oblong, equaling calyx, dehiscing by 6 teeth;

carpophore 2–5 mm.

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

dark brown to black, reniform, ca. 2 mm broad, with concentric rings of small papillae.

= 96.