root annual or perennial; stems herbaceous above, shrubby below, rigid or wiry, leafy below, more or less shaggy with soft whitish hairs, decumbent at the base, branched or simple, ascending above, 6–24 in. high; leaves oblanceolate or narrowly elliptical, obtuse, wedge-shaped or attenuate at the base, toothed or incise-dentate, pubescent, 3/4–2 1/2 in. long, 1/8– 5/6 in. broad; petioles up to about 1 in. long; flowers numerous, thyrsoid, subfasciculate, 1/3– 3/8 in. long; ultimate pedicels short or very short, pubescent; bracts sublinear, obtuse, about 1/8 in. long; cymes elongating, interrupted below, often arranged in leafy corymbs or panicles; calyx deeply 5-lobed, about 1/8 in. long; segments linear, obtuse, ciliate; corolla-tube reddish or orange, papillose-puberulous on the upper part outside, glabrous or puberulous below, slender; throat glabrous or somewhat hairy; limb spreading, about 1/4 in. in diam.; lobes oval-oblong, entire, obtuse, glabrous above, red or orange; stamens included; capsules ovoid-oblong, glabrous, 1/6– 5/16 in. long. null
