Flora of North America species comparison

blades bright green, broadly elliptic or ovate, 19–27 × 7–11 mm, margins sharply serrate, surfaces laxly glandular abaxially.

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

bracts ± persistent.

slender, 0.8–1.2 cm.

calyx green, lobes ± recurved (or absent and margins of tube sinuate), deltate, 0.4–0.6 mm, glabrous;

corolla pink, cream, or greenish white, globose, 3–5 × 5–7 mm, thin, glaucous;

filaments glabrous.

calyx 21–29 × 7–13 mm;

corolla white, 3–5 mm;

filaments ciliate.

purple-black or bluish black, rarely reddish or red, 7–9 mm diam.

shiny black, 7–9 mm diam. 2n = 24.

ca. 1 mm.

= 24, 48.