Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–several, straggling to erect, sometimes decumbent at base, simple or much-branched distally, 20–120 cm, puberulent or scabrous-pubescent, sometimes retrorse, often glandular distally, becoming glabrate proximally.

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.

sessile or narrowed at base into pseudopetiole, blade pubescent on both surfaces;

proximal with blade lanceolate and oblanceolate, broadest distally or distal often reduced, cauline longest near mid stem, blade linear to lanceolate or elliptic, 1.5–10 cm × 2–30 mm.

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

bracts leaflike, 3–15 mm.

from 1-flowered to simple dichotomy to compound and 3–5–many-flowered with elongate branches;

bracts small, linear-lanceolate, or resembling leaves.

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

elongate, much exceeding calyx.

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 green, 10-veined, broadly tubular, 12–25 × 4–8 mm in flower, narrower towards base, middle broadening to 6–13 mm in fruit, narrower at both ends, pubescent, glandular, lobes lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm, margins membranous or not, apex ± obtuse;

corolla scarlet, clawed, claw equaling or longer than calyx, limb lobed, often deeply so, lobes 4–6, linear, lanceolate, or oblong, small lateral teeth may be present, 6–15 mm, appendages inconspicuous, 1–2 mm, dentate;

stamens longer than corolla claw but shorter than lobes;

stigmas 3, equaling corolla.

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

carpophore 2.5–3.5 mm.

oblong to ovoid or broadly tubular, equaling calyx, opening by 6 ascending teeth;

carpophore 2–4 mm.

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

reddish brown, broadly reniform, 1.7–2.3 mm, sides tuberculate, margins papillate.

= 48.