Flora of North America species comparison

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

several, erect from decumbent base, branched, 20–40 cm, sparsely scabrid-puberulent, stipitate-glandular 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;

basal shortly petiolate, blade oblanceolate, apex acute, sparsely puberulent;

cauline sessile, in 3–6 pairs, blade lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 3–8 cm × 3–8 mm, apex acute, scabrid-puberulent.

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

cymose, open, branches few, ascending, elongate, 5–10 cm, flowers 1–3 per branch, bracteate;

bracts lanceolate, 3–5 mm, apex acute.

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

usually shorter than or to 11/2 times calyx, scabrous-puberulent, ± viscid.

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.

bisexual and unisexual, all flowers having bisexual flowers and staminate unisexual flowers, 6–8 mm diam.;

calyx prominently 10-veined, narrowly campanulate in flower, campanulate in fruit, 7–10(–11) × 4–6 mm, only slightly contracted around carpophore, papery and membranous, sparsely scabrid with short glandular-setose hairs, veins parallel, green, with pale commissures, margins dentate, lobes broadly ovate (as broad as long), 1–2 mm, not ciliate;

corolla cream or white, tinged purple, claw slightly exceeding calyx, narrowly triangular, auriculate, puberulent at base, limb oblong, 2-lobed, 2–4 mm, lobes entire, appendages 0.1–0.5 mm and broad, entire;

stamens equaling petals;

styles 3, equaling petals, reduced in functionally staminate flowers.

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

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

ovoid-ellipsoid, equaling calyx, opening by 6 spreading teeth;

carpophore ca. 2 mm.

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

brown, reniform-triangular, ca. 1 mm;

papillate mainly around margin.

= 96.