Flora of North America species comparison

paniculately branched distally, (2–)4.5–17(–28) dm.

petiole (0.5–)1.2–10(–15) cm;

blade usually oblong to lanceolate, or oblanceolate to spatulate, rarely ovate or obovate, (3.7–)5–31(–54) cm × (12–)16–78(–140) mm, margins usually entire, rarely dentate or repand.

(ascending, not appressed to stem);

sessile;

blade linear to linear-lanceolate, (1–)2.2–8.3(–19.5) cm × (2–)3–11(–25) mm, (base cuneate to attenuate, not auriculate), margins entire.

elongated or sub-umbellate in fruit;

central rachis (0.5–)1.2–10(–25) cm.

dense, slightly or considerably elongated in fruit, (flower buds narrowly oblong).

petals usually lavender to purple, rarely white, (4.5–)5.5–8(–10.5) mm;

gynophore stout, 0.5–1.2(–2.5).

sepals erect, linear to linear-oblong, (3–)3.5–5.5(–7.5) × (0.5–)0.8–1(–1.5) mm;

petals white or lavender to purple, spatulate to oblanceolate, (4.5–)6–9(–13) × (0.5–)0.8–1.5(–2.3) mm, margins not crisped, claw differentiated from blade, [slender, (2–)3–4.5(–7) mm, narrowest at base];

nectar glands lateral, flat or toothlike, median glands absent;

filaments subequal to slightly tetradynamous, (3–)4.5–7.5(–12.5) mm;

anthers exserted, linear to narrowly oblong, (1–)1.5–2.5(–4.5) mm, not circinately coiled;

gynophore 0.5–2(–5.5) mm.

usually divaricate to divaricate-ascending, rarelyhorizontal, straight or slightly incurved, not whitish,often slender, sometimes stout, (4–)6–10(–13) mm, not or slightly flattened at base.

usually horizontal to divaricate, rarely ascending or reflexed, usually straight, rarely incurved, slender or stout, (2–)3–9(–13) mm, often strongly flattened, rarely not flattened at base.

divaricate-ascending to ascending, straight or incurved, (1–)1.5–3(–4) cm.

usually horizontal to divaricate-ascending, or ascending, rarely reflexed, usually torulose, rarely submoniliform, usually strongly incurved, sometimes straight, rarely arcuate, terete, (0.8–)1.4–6.5(–8) cm × 1–1.3(–2) mm;

ovules 14–40 per ovary;

style usually cylindrical, rarely subclavate, 0.5–1.3(–3.2) mm.

(1–)1.2–2(–2.3) × 0.7–1(–1.3) mm.

= 26.