Description
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Herbs perennial, 1--2 cm tall. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole nearly as long as to shorter than leaf blade; leaf blade broadly ovate to oblong, 4--13 X 3.5--10 mm, minutely scurfy pubescent, abaxially yellow farinose, base subrounded to truncate, rarely short attenuate, margin irregularly dentate, apex obtuse to rounded. Scapes 1--3 cm, glandular puberulous, 1- or 2-flowered; bracts linear to oblong, (1--)2--4 mm, farinose, apex acute. Pedicel 4--12 mm, glandular puberulous. Flowers homostylous. Calyx campanulate, 3.5--4.5 mm, glandular puberulous outside, yellow farinose inside, parted slightly below middle, obscurely 5-ribbed; lobes lanceolate to triangular, apex acute. Corolla pink or violet; tube 6--7 mm; limb 8--10 mm wide; lobes obovate-cuneate, 3--5 mm, deeply emarginate. Stamens near apex of corolla tube. Style reaching anthers. Capsule cylindric, ca. as long as calyx. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
