Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, branched or simple, 5–40 cm, glabrous or pubescent.

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 few or numerous, petiolate, blade narrowly oblanceolate, spatulate, 1–13 cm × 1–7 mm, margins ciliate, glabrous or pubescent;

cauline in 1–5 pairs, sessile, much reduced distally, blade linear to lanceolate, 0.1–4 cm × 1–5 mm.

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

bracts leaflike, 3–15 mm.

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

slender or stout.

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.

erect or nodding;

calyx prominently 10-veined, ovate-elliptic to broadly campanulate, inflated, 11–18 × 6–13 mm, thin and papery, veins purple or brown, lobes ovate to triangular, 2–3 mm;

corolla dingy pink, purple, or red, claw shorter than to equaling calyx, limb not differentiated from claw, ovate or obovate, unlobed to 2-lobed, 1–4 mm;

stamens shorter than petals;

styles 5, shorter than petals.

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

carpophore 2.5–3.5 mm.

equaling to slightly longer than calyx, opening by 10 recurved teeth;

carpophore 1–2 mm.

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

brown or sooty brown, broadly winged, round to ± angular, 1.5–2.5 mm diam. including wing.

= 48.