Description:
Capsule appendages: Ridges and grooves
Capsule Colour: Straw colouredCapsule Length: 5 - 7mm, Greater than 10mm
Capsule shape: OvalSeed Colour: Variable - Light/Dark brown, Reddish
Seed Length: 1mm or less
Seed Sculpture: AlveolateSeed Shape: Reniform (Kidney shaped)
Plants to 5 dm, hispid. Stems branching. Leaves to 10 cm. Inflorescences: peduncle appressed-hispid. Flowers: petals early caducous, red to purplish red, with dark basal spot, to 25 mm; anthers pale blue; ovaries setose; stigmas 4-8, disc convex and radially vaulted. Capsules sessile, obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, obscurely to distinctly ribbed, to 1.5 cm, densely and firmly setose, stigmatic disc often deciduous.
Source: See Web Links Flora of North America
