Flora of North America species comparison

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

several, erect, simple or branched, 10–45 cm, usually with 2–5 pairs of leaves.

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.

mainly basal, petiolate;

blade narrowly oblanceolate, ± spatulate, 20–60 × 3–5(–10) mm (including petiole), glabrous to pubescent, especially on margins and abaxial veins, pubescence spreading, short, stiff, mainly eglandular.

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

bracts resembling distal leaves.

1–3-flowered, open, bracteate, pubescent, usually densely so, hairs long, flexuous, purple-septate, mostly glandular;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 mm, usually pubescent.

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

usually several times longer than calyx.

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.

pedicellate, rarely sessile, erect, 8–16 mm diam.;

calyx prominently 10-veined, not inflated or thin, campanulate or ovate, 8–20 mm, pubescent, especially on veins, rarely almost glabrous, hairs long and short purple-septate, ± glandular, veins heavily suffused with purple (rarely green), sinuses between veins pale, cream colored;

petals white, often pink or purple tinged, claw equaling calyx, limb not differentiated from claw, emarginate to obovate, often 2-lobed, ca. 1/2 as long as calyx;

stamens included in calyx, spreading horizontally;

styles 5, included in calyx.

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

carpophore 6–8 mm.

equaling calyx, opening by 5 teeth, tardily splitting into 10.

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

brown, winged, ± reniform to angular, 1–1.5 mm diam.;

wing to 1/2 seed diam.

= 48.