Flora of North America species comparison

slender or tuberous;

roots fibrous.

10–25 cm.

erect, usually simple.

mostly whorled at stem apex, some alternate on proximal stem;

blades of distal leaves elliptic to suborbiculate, (2.4–)4–11 cm × 15–55 mm (narrower in some plants along Vancouver Island and Washington coast), widest ± at midlength (proximal leaves abruptly much smaller, 0.1–0.5 cm × 0.7–1.3 mm, ± scalelike), apex rounded to acute.

in terminal whorl or cluster, dimorphic, with smaller cauline and alternate ones proximally (some ± scalelike);

petiole present (distal) or absent (proximal);

blade lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic, suborbiculate, obovate, or spatulate, base cuneate, margins entire, plane, apex acuminate, acute, or obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous.

axillary in distal leaves, solitary flowers.

1–5, 2.9–4.6 cm, shorter than to equaling leaves (sometimes longer in fruit), glabrous or sparsely glandular.

present.

corolla pink, rose, or pinkish lavender, 4.5–8.8 mm, lobes ovate to lanceolate, apex acuminate or abruptly acute.

sepals (5–)7(–9), green, calyx lobes lanceolate or lanceolate-linear, much longer than tube;

petals (5–)7(–9), corolla white to pink, rose, or pinkish lavender, rotate, lobes longer than tube, apex acute or acuminate;

stamens (5–)7(–9);

filaments connate basally.

capsular, globose, dehiscence valvate.

2–15, black or reddish brown, globose, with deciduous, white, netlike covering.

= 35, 42.