Compilation
Gerardia scabra

an ascending or erect or sometimes procumbent shrub, perennial, hard, scabrid, more or less pubescent or puberulous, branched chiefly at or near the base, 4–14 in. high; rootstock woody; stems and branches obtusely tetragonous above, leafy, subherbaceous or somewhat wiry towards the apex; leaves opposite, subopposite or scattered, ovate, oval, elliptical or lanceolate, acute, obtusely narrowed or apiculate, more or less wedge-shaped or rarely obtuse at the sessile or subsessile base, rigid, scabrid, usually hispidulous with pallid hairs, 3- or 5-nerved at the base, coarsely dentate or incise-pinnatifid, rarely subentire, green or slightly dusky when dried, 1/3–1 1/2 in. long, 1/20–1 in. broad; teeth acute or pointed; flowers in the upper axils and subterminal, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, 3/4–1 in. long; bracteoles 2, opposite, sublanceolate or sublinear, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, inserted at the base of the calyx; calyx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, 10-nerved, scabrid, hispid or puberulous especially on the nerves, 1/3– 2/5 in. long in flower, in fruit up to 3/4 in. long; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute or pointed, 1/5– 1/3 in. long in flower; Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, subventricose, sparingly pubescent outside with pallid hairs, pink or peach-coloured; limb spreading, 1/2–1 in. in diam.; lobes 5, broadly rounded, 1/6– 1/3 in. long; filaments filiform, somewhat pilose at least towards the base; anthers glabrous, cells apiculate at the ends; ovary somewhat gibbous; style filiform, long, slightly thickened at the short stigmatic apex; capsule about 1/3 in. long and broad. null