Flora of North America species comparison

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

several, erect, branched distally, stout, 40–100 cm.

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.

basal blade oblanceolate, spatulate, 5–10 cm × 10–25(–30) mm, margins entire, apex acute, apiculate, with tuft of white hairs;

cauline in 5–10 pairs, sessile, reduced distally, blade with both surfaces obscured by dense, silky, grayish-white tomentum.

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

bracts leaflike, 3–15 mm.

with 1–several dichotomies, several-flowered, open, bracteate;

branches ascending, elongate;

bracts leaflike, 10–20 mm.

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

straight, stout, to 10 cm.

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.

ca. 35 mm;

calyx thickly 10-veined, obovate, ca. 15 × 10 mm in fruit, margins dentate with 5 narrowly lanceolate lobes ca. 1/4 length of tube, tomentose;

corolla rich magenta-pink, sometimes white, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb spreading horizontally, broadly obovate, shallowly 2-lobed, appendages 2, narrow, 2–4 mm;

stamens equaling claw;

stigmas 5, equaling claw.

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

carpophore 2.5–3.5 mm.

equaling to tightly enclosed within calyx, obovate-elliptic, ca. 14 mm, opening by 5 spreading, lanceolate teeth;

carpophore ca. 2 mm.

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

grayish brown, reniform-rotund, plump, 1–1.5 mm, coarsely verrucate.

= 48.

= 24.