Red kittentails

Leaves strictly annual, disintegrating in 1st year; blade oblong-ovate to ovate, 25+ mm wide, leathery, base cuneate, truncate, or rounded to lobate, sometimes cordate, margins crenate, teeth apices acute to rounded, surfaces sparsely hairy; basal veins extending into distal 1/2 of blade, lateral veins 3–6 on each side of midvein. Racemes erect, to 45 cm in fruit; sterile bracts 10–30, ovate-spatulate, largest 1+ cm; flowers 100+, densely aggregated (separating in fruit). Sepals 4, basal connation between abaxial and adaxial lobes on each side of flower. Petals 1–4, apex entire or erose; corolla reddish, bluish purple, green, or white, bilabiate or unilabiate, rudimentary, much shorter than calyx, glabrous, lateral and abaxial petals of abaxial lip connate 1/2+ their lengths, abaxial and adaxial petal lips basally adnate to stamens, tube absent. Stamens inserted on receptacle. Ovaries: ovules 17–40. Capsules densely hairy.