Flora of North America species comparison

several, straggling to erect, freely branched, 2–7 cm, pilose and glandular, sparsely so proximally.

basal leaves withered at time of flowering, distal sessile, proximal petiolate, largest on mid to distal stem;

blade subrotund to broadly ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 cm × 20–70 mm, base cuneate into petiole, apex short-acuminate, sparsely short-pilose.

cymose, open, few-flowered, leafy, bracteate;

bracts resembling distal leaves.

1–3(–4) cm, viscid, with long septate-glandular hairs.

calyx indistinctly veined, tubular, broadened distally, constricted towards base around carpophore, ± umbilicate, 20–25 × 5–8 mm, herbaceous, glandular-pilose, lobes triangular, 3–4 mm, margins narrow, membranous, ciliate;

corolla scarlet, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb deeply 2-lobed, 10–15 mm, lobes lanceolate, sometimes with 2 smaller lateral teeth, ciliate, appendages saccate, 1–1.5 mm, with clear area abaxially;

stamens shortly exserted;

styles 3, shortly exserted.

narrowly ellipsoid, not distending calyx, included within it, opening by 6 teeth;

carpophore 6–8 mm.

gray, broadly reniform, plump, ca. 1 mm, shallowly papillate.

= 48.