Flora of North America species comparison

freely branched, stout, 5–12 dm, often with reddish hairs basally, nodes not fringed.

simple, 1–2 dm, glabrous, nodes coarsely fringed-ciliate.

5–15 × 2.5–6 cm;

blade ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, base cordate-clasping, apex acuminate;

peduncle: junction with pedicel abrupt, with glands indicating transition, entire structure 2–5 cm, glands short-stalked.

3–5.5 × 1.5–2 cm;

blade ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, base rounded, apex acute to acuminate;

peduncle bearing 1 flower per axil, 5–10 mm including pedicel, entire structure slender.

1–2 per axil;

perianth campanulate;

tepals spreading, recurved at tips, white to greenish yellow, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9–15 mm;

stamens unequal, outer shorter, 0.8–1 mm, inner 2–3 mm;

anthers lanceolate, 3–3.5 mm, apex 1-pointed;

style stout, 4–5 mm;

stigma fused from base to tip, unlobed; combined peduncles and pedicels recurved, 2–5 cm, short-stalked glands indicating transition;

pedicel sharply geniculate, glabrous.

1–5;

perianth rotate;

tepals recurved at tips, wine-colored with yellowish green apex, oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 mm, apex acuminate;

stamens 1.5–2 mm;

anthers 1 mm, apex minutely apiculate;

style bulbous-conical, 0.5 mm;

stigma unlobed.

whitish green maturing to yellowish orange or red, ellipsoid, 10–12 mm.

orangish red, globose, 5–6 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2.5 mm.

= 16, 32.

= 16, 54.