Flora of North America species comparison

simple to highly branched.

freely branched, stout, 5–12 dm, often with reddish hairs basally, nodes not fringed.

numerous, sessile;

blade elliptic to ovate, base rounded to cordate-clasping, apex acute to acuminate.

5–15 × 2.5–6 cm;

blade ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, base cordate-clasping, apex acuminate;

peduncle: junction with pedicel abrupt, with glands indicating transition, entire structure 2–5 cm, glands short-stalked.

1–2-flowered, peduncle slender, adnate to stem for 1 internode and arising opposite next leaf axil, junction with pedicel abrupt or not, entire structure recurved.

small, borne beneath leaves;

perianth rotate or campanulate;

tepals deciduous, erect to spreading or recurved, distinct, white to greenish yellow to rose, oblanceolate to oblong;

stamens hypogynous;

filaments short, broad, flat;

anthers basifixed, apex minutely apiculate or with tapering, setose points, extrorse;

ovary superior, 3-locular;

style slender to bulbous;

stigma unlobed or 3-lobed;

pedicel geniculate.

1–2 per axil;

perianth campanulate;

tepals spreading, recurved at tips, white to greenish yellow, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9–15 mm;

stamens unequal, outer shorter, 0.8–1 mm, inner 2–3 mm;

anthers lanceolate, 3–3.5 mm, apex 1-pointed;

style stout, 4–5 mm;

stigma fused from base to tip, unlobed; combined peduncles and pedicels recurved, 2–5 cm, short-stalked glands indicating transition;

pedicel sharply geniculate, glabrous.

baccate, orangish to dark red, ellipsoid to globose.

whitish green maturing to yellowish orange or red, ellipsoid, 10–12 mm.

pale yellow, elongate, grooved longitudinally.

2.5–3 mm.

= 8.

= 16, 32.