Flora of North America species comparison

blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely oblong, 5–18 × 2–55 mm, margins entire, slightly revolute.

blades pale green, glaucous, obovate to oblong, 22–40 × 12–20 mm, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous or glandular-hairy abaxially, glabrous and lustrous adaxially.

in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current year’s shoots.

bracts ± persistent.

nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate;

bracteoles 2, greenish white, scalelike, 1–2 mm wide.

slender, 0.8–1.2 cm.

calyx lobes relatively small;

corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to pink;

filaments hairy;

anther tubules 1–2 mm.

calyx 21–29 × 7–13 mm;

corolla white, 3–5 mm;

filaments ciliate.

red to pink, 9–14 mm diam., smooth.

shiny black, 7–9 mm diam. 2n = 24.

= 24.