Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect from sometimes decumbent base, little-branched, subscapose with 2–3 pairs of reduced leaves, 10–20(–30) cm, finely retrorse-puberulent proximally, stipitate-glandular and viscid in inflorescence.

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.

basal petiolate, blade oblanceolate to spatulate, (1.5–)2–5(–6) cm × 2–7 mm, thick and ± fleshy, apex broadly acute, puberulent on both surfaces;

cauline blades linear-oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2 cm × 1–3 mm.

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.

open, 1–3(–5)-flowered, bracteate;

bracts lanceolate, 2–7 mm, herbaceous.

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

erect and straight or slightly deflexed near apex, 5–20 mm, stipitate-glandular, hairs with colorless septa.

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 prominently 10-veined, in flower broadly cylindric, 8–10 × 3–4 mm, in fruit becoming campanulate and somewhat contracted at base, 8–12 × 5–7 mm, membranous between veins, margins dentate, hairs with colorless septa, veins parallel, purplish, with pale commissures;

lobes ovate, ca. 2 mm, shorter than tube, apex flushed with dark red, shortly apiculate with broad, scarious margins, glandular, puberulent;

petals exserted, pink to dusky purple, clawed, claw equaling or slightly longer than calyx, limb 2-lobed, 3–5 mm, each lobe with lateral tooth, tooth usually small, rarely larger and equaling lobes, appendages 2, 0.7–1.5 mm;

stamens equaling petals;

stigmas 3(–4), equaling petals.

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

carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm.

slightly exceeding calyx, ovoid, opening with 6 (or 8) ascending to slightly recurved teeth;

carpophore 2–3 mm.

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

pale brown, reniform, 2–3 mm, sides with close radiating ridges, margins broadened and winglike.

= 48.

= 48.