Selago canescens, bitterbos floral detail

The pale mauve petal lobes of the Selago canescens flowers in picture are oblong with rounded tips. Some lobes are flat or nearly flat, others curve up markedly near the tips or in the upper halves.

The pale fleshy filaments of the stamens, positioned in rings over the corollas, taper to the top. The yellow anthers are two-lobed and shortly oblong but lost their looks in the older flower cluster. The styles are slightly longer than the stamens, similar to the filaments, the tiny stigmas invisible at their tips.

Some of the fist-like bud tops show more colour than the open flowers (Curtis-Scott, 2020; Privett and Lutzeyer, 2010; iNaturalist).