Habit: Annual, short-lived perennial herb, glabrous, +- glaucous.
Stem: erect, branched.
Leaf: basal, cauline, opposite.
Inflorescence: cyme or flowers 1.
Flower: parts in 5s; calyx lobed +- to base, lobes linear, narrow-keeled, acuminate; corolla > 2 cm, wide-bell-shaped, lobes >> tube, nectary pit 0 (nectaries at base of ovary); ovary sessile, style slender, entire, deciduous, stigma 2-lobed.
Species In Genus: 1 sp.: North America, Central America, West Indies.
Etymology: (Greek: beautiful mouth, from corolla tube)
Jepson eFlora Author: James S. Pringle
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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