Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, scarcely branched, 20–100 cm, glabrous.

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 linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 3–16 cm × 3–12 mm, ± fleshy, base tapering into short petiole, apex acute, glabrous except for few cilia at base.

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

cymose, terminal and axillary, elongate, 1–3-flowered, open, bracteate, bracteolate, pedunculate;

peduncle slender, 2–10 cm;

bracts and bracteoles much-reduced, linear-lanceolate, often ciliate.

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

slender, 2–10 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 tubular, 17–22 × 4–5 mm in flower, broadening to 7 mm in fruit but contracted around carpophore, glabrous, lobes lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins membranous and ciliate near broad, obtuse apex;

corolla scarlet, 2–21/2 times longer than calyx, limb lanceolate, narrowed into claw, 4–5 mm wide, margins entire or shallowly dentate, appendages linear, 4–5 mm;

stamens exserted;

styles 3, exserted.

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

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

clavate, equaling calyx, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore 3–4 mm.

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

brown, broadly reniform, 2–2.3 mm, rugose.

= 96.

= 48.