Flora of North America species comparison

blades pale green or glaucous abaxially, slightly darker pale green adaxially, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 25–39 × 16–20 mm, margins entire to obscurely serrate, abaxial surface glabrous, eglandular (sometimes hairy or glandular along midvein), adaxial surface usually glabrous (sometimes hairy and/or glandular).

persistent.

terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.

articulated with calyx tube.

calyx pale green or glaucous, lobes vestigial or absent, glabrous;

corolla pink, bronze-pink, or greenish white, globose, sometimes urceolate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm, thin, glaucous;

filaments glabrous or pilose basally.

sepals 5;

petals 4–5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla cylindric or urceolate;

stamens 10, included;

anthers ± without awns, tubules 1–1.5 mm, with terminal pores.

blue, dull purplish black, or black, sometimes glaucous, 8–10 mm diam.

[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.

ca. 1 mm.

10–25, (ca. 1 mm).

= 24, 48.