Flora of North America species comparison

several, erect, simple, 15–50 cm, puberulent, viscid-glandular distally.

ascending, scarcely branched, 8–20(–30) cm, softly pubescent, stipitate-glandular or eglandular, rarely glabrate.

mostly basal;

basal marcescent, long-petiolate, densely tufted, blade 1-veined, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–10(–20) cm × 2–12(–20) mm, not fleshy, base tapering to petiole, apex acute to obtuse, finely puberulent on both surfaces;

cauline in 1–3 pairs, sessile, much reduced, blade linear-lanceolate, not fleshy.

mostly basal, petiolate, 3–12 cm (including petiole);

cauline leaves in 2–4 pairs, those of mid and distal stem sessile, shorter and narrower;

blade narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, base spatulate into winged petiole, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous, puberulent or pilose on both surfaces and frequently stipitate-glandular, at least petioles usually ciliate.

1–5(–7)-flowered, with terminal flower and lateral, open, pedunculate cymes often reduced to single flowers, bracteate;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3–10(–20) mm.

(1–)3–15-flowered, open, bracteate;

bracts foliaceous.

erect, elongate, 0.5–4.5 cm, glandular-puberulent.

ascending or erect, 0.2–0.8(–1.5) cm, densely pubescent and frequently stipitate-glandular.

calyx prominently 10-veined, those to lobes lance-shaped broadened and thickened distally, commissural veins slender, not forked distally, campanulate, 10–12 × 3.5–5 mm in flower, enlarging to 15 × 10 mm in fruit, not contracted around carpophore, papery, margins dentate, glandular-pubescent, viscid, veins parallel, with pale commissures, lobes patent, ovate, 1.5–4 mm, rigid, margins broad, membranous;

corolla off-white to dingy purple-red, clawed, claw exceeding calyx, ciliate proximally, broadened distally, limbs erect, 2–4-lobed, less than 1/2 length of calyx, lobes 2–5 mm, appendages 2–4, 0.5–1 mm;

stamens slightly exserted;

filaments lanate, expanded at base;

styles 3–5, ± equaling calyx.

calyx usually green, prominently 8–10-veined, in flower narrowly tubular, lobed, narrowed proximally around carpophore, 15–22 × to 5 mm, becoming broader and clavate in fruit, pilose or stipitate-glandular, veins parallel, with pale commissures, lobes round, 1–3 mm, margins usually purple tinged, broad, membranous;

petals spreading, usually bright pink, rarely white, broadly to narrowly obovate, 2 times longer than calyx, base tapered into ciliate claw equaling or slightly longer than calyx, margins entire or shallowly lobed and crenulate, auricles absent, appendages oblong, unlobed, 1.5–2 mm;

stamens equaling claw;

filaments glabrous;

styles 3(–4), ultimately slightly exceeding claw.

slightly longer than calyx, opening by 3–5 teeth;

carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm.

ellipsoid to obovoid, 8–10 mm, equaling calyx, opening by 6 (or 8) recurved teeth;

carpophore 5–8 mm.

brown, reniform, 1.2–2 mm, margins with large, inflated papillae, rugose on sides.

dark brown, reniform-rotund, 1.3–1.5 mm, coarsely and evenly papillate.

= 48.