Flora of North America species comparison

30–230 cm.

erect, leafy, 3–23 cm, densely stipitate-glandular and eglandular-pubescent.

stipules of cauline leaves 1–2 mm (often fimbriate, sometimes foliaceous);

petiole (5–)10–50(–100) mm;

blade 9–50 × 13–70 mm, succulent.

in basal rosettes and cauline;

cauline reduced distally;

stipules expanded from petiole base;

petiole stipitate-glandular;

blade usually reniform, sometimes orbiculate-cordate, sometimes lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins 1–2 times crenate, apex rounded, surfaces stipitate-glandular, adaxial surface ± smooth;

venation palmate.

cylindric panicles or simple cymes, terminal from terminal bud in rosette, branches 2–3-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate.

densely stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium free from ovary (1.5–)2–3.5 mm, campanulate to turbinate;

sepals erect, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–6 mm, apex usually acute;

petals violet-purple, ovate or spatulate, 3–6(–6.8) × 1–3.5(–5) mm, lengths ca. 1.3 times sepals, base tapered to claw;

stamens (1.9–)2.5–3.3(–3.8) mm;

anthers obtuse;

styles connate ca. 1/2 their lengths.

± radially symmetric;

hypanthium adnate to 1/4–1/2 of ovary, free from ovary 1–3.5 mm, purplish, sometimes green;

sepals 5, purplish green;

petals 5, crimson-purple to violet-purple;

nectary tissue green, encircling base of styles at junction of ovary and free-hypanthium;

stamens 10;

filaments linear to subulate;

ovary 1/2 inferior, 2-locular, carpels connate in proximal 1/2;

placentation axile;

styles 2;

stigmas 2.

ovoid.

2-beaked.

50–100.

brown, oblong, smooth.

= 7.

= 14.