Flora of North America species comparison

numerous, erect, simple, 3–15 cm, pubescent, viscid-glandular distally.

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

mostly basal, densely tufted;

basal numerous, pseudopetiolate, blade narrowly oblanceolate, tapering into base, 0.5–3 cm × 1.5–4 mm, ± fleshy, apex acute, puberulent;

cauline in 1–3 pairs, ± sessile, reduced, blade narrowly oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0.7–2 cm × 1–3 mm, apex acute, puberulent.

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.

flowers terminal, solitary, or in single dichotomy, bracteate;

bracts leaflike, 3–15 mm.

(1–)3–15-flowered, open, bracteate;

bracts foliaceous.

erect, ca. equaling calyx, viscid glandular-pubescent, hairs with purple septa.

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

calyx prominently 10-veined, campanulate, not contracted proximally around carpophore, 10–15 × 5–7 mm, papery, veins parallel, purplish, with pale commissures, with purple-septate glandular hairs (rarely septa not purple), lobes ovate, ca. 2 mm, margins broad, membranous, apex obtuse;

corolla off-white or tinged with dusky purple, clawed, claw equaling calyx, broadened distally, limb 2-lobed, 3–5 mm, appendages ca. 1 mm;

stamens equaling calyx;

styles 3(–4), 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.

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

carpophore 2.5–3.5 mm.

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

carpophore 5–8 mm.

brown, broadly winged, reniform, 1–2 mm, rugose-tessellate.

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

= 48.