Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

ascending.

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 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.

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

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

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

carpophore 2–4 mm.

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

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

= 96.

= 48.