Flora of North America species comparison

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

several–many, decumbent to erect, much-branched and sometimes matted, leafy, 5–30 cm, pubescent and glandular, at least 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, leafy above, sessile;

blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, broadest proximally, narrowed to base, 1–5 cm × 3–8 mm, apex acute, short-pubescent and ± glandular on both surfaces.

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

cymose, loose, leafy, compound, or flowers terminal, axillary in distal nodes.

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

0.5–1(–3) cm, glandular-pubescent.

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.

unisexual, all plants having both staminate and pistillate flowers;

calyx obscurely 10-veined, ovate-campanulate, 9–11 × 4–6 mm, herbaceous, papery, pubescence rather dense, glandular, ± obscuring veins, veins slender, without conspicuous pale commissures, lobes lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, apex acute to acuminate;

corolla white, clawed, claw shorter than calyx, limb oblong, 2-lobed, 1.5–3 mm, lobes lanceolate, apex acute, appendages linear, 0.3–0.5 mm;

stamens equaling corolla;

stigmas 3, slender, equaling corolla, papillate only at tip.

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

carpophore 1–2.5 mm.

straw colored, ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore ca. 1 mm.

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

dull brown, not winged, angular-reniform, ca. 1 mm, tuberculate.

= 96.

= 24.