Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, branched, leafy, 20–60 cm, villose-tomentose, viscid-glandular.

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.

2 per node, connate proximally, sessile, largest in mid stem;

blade lanceolate, 3–7 cm × 5–15 mm, apex acute, glandular-tomentose throughout.

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, leafy cymes, bracteate, viscid and glandular-tomentose, branches ascending, mostly floriferous, flowers terminal and at distal nodes;

bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm.

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

shorter than calyx.

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 obscurely 10-veined, tubular-campanulate, 10–15 × 4–5 mm in flower, becoming clavate and 15–20 × 6–8 mm in fruit, narrowed toward base around carpophore, herbaceous, viscid-pubescent, veins more distinct at base, without conspicuous pale commissures, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 3–6 mm, margins very narrow, membranous, apex blunt;

corolla greenish white, clawed, claw equaling calyx, widened distally, limb emarginate, 2 × 4 mm, appendages 4(–6), ca. 0.5 mm;

stamens equaling petals;

styles 3, equaling petals.

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

carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm.

ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm.

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

yellowish brown, winged, reniform, ca. 2 mm, rugose;

wing broad, wrinkled.

= 48.

= 48.