Flora of North America species comparison

sometimes reddish, slender.

usually stout.

to 12 cm, reduced abruptly beneath inflorescence;

blade elliptic to obovate, base attenuate.

to 9 cm;

blade obovate to oblanceolate, base attenuate.

paniculate, sometimes nodding.

racemose or cymose.

sepals deciduous, sometimes reflexed, ovate to suborbiculate, 2.5–4 mm;

petals red or pink, sometimes orangish, yellowish, or purplish, ovate to suborbiculate, 3–6 mm;

stamens ca. 15–20;

stigmas 3, linear;

pedicel terete, ± uniformly slender, to 20 mm.

sepals persistent, lanceolate to ovate, 5–6 mm;

petals purplish, pink, or white, sometimes yellow, elliptic to ovate, 7–13 mm;

stamens 20–35;

stigma 1, 3-lobed;

pedicel triquetrous, distally thickened, to 12 mm.

subglobose, sometimes obtusely trigonous, 3–5 mm, exocarp and endocarp usually separating after dehiscence;

endocarp valves persistent, remaining connate at apex, attached to receptacle by vascular strands from capsule apex;

exocarp dehiscing from apex, valves deciduous ± separately.

subglobose, 4–6 mm;

exocarp and endocarp usually not separating after dehiscence, valves wholly deciduous.

= 24.

= 24, 48.