Flora of North America species comparison

few to many, decumbent to ascending, much-branched, with leafy axillary shoots, villous, hairs spreading, long, stiff to soft, eglandular, mixed with short-glandular ones.

solitary or few to many, erect, branched distally, sometimes unbranched or with short, leafy branches in axils of leaves, glabrous, sometimes hairy, hairs moderately dense, spreading, short, soft, eglandular.

gray-green becoming ± purple, or green, ± cup-shaped, oblong to narrowly elliptic or suborbicular, 0.5–2(–5) cm, ± fleshy, cupulate throughout, sometimes obscurely so on distal portion of stem, margins plane, flat to involute, 0–3-lobed, apex rounded;

lobes ascending, oblong to rounded, apex truncate or rounded, sometimes ± acute.

green, sometimes purplish, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 1–9 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 3–5(–9)-lobed, apex acuminate to narrowly acute;

lobes spreading, linear, arising near or below mid length, apex acute, rarely obtuse.

5–23 × 1.5–3.5 cm;

bracts proximally greenish, distally bright red or red-orange, sometimes orange, oblong, ovate, or widely cuneate to widely obovate to suborbiculate, sometimes cup-shaped, 0–3-lobed, sometimes with 3 additional shallow teeth at tip of central lobe;

lobes erect, oblong to broadly triangular, short, arising above mid length, apex truncate, rounded, or obtuse, lateral ones sometimes acute.

3–15(–20) × 1.5–3 cm;

bracts proximally pale greenish to pale yellowish green, distally white, cream, or pale yellow, sometimes pale greenish, pale yellow-green, or pale yellow throughout, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3–5(–7)-lobed;

lobes ascending or spreading, linear to very narrowly linear, long, arising above or below mid length, apex acute to obtuse.

straight or slightly curved, 28–45 mm;

tube 18–20 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green or yellow-green, 15–25 mm;

abaxial lip deep green, reduced, visible in front cleft, 1–1.5 mm, 10% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, green, 0.5–1 mm.

straight or ± curved, 16–25 mm;

tube 15–17 mm;

beak exserted from calyx, adaxially green, 5–7 mm;

abaxial lip deep green, reduced, exserted through abaxial cleft, 1–4 mm, 40–60% as long as beak;

teeth erect, white, 0.5–1 mm.

colored as bracts, often with a yellow central band, 20–31 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 8–12 mm, ca. 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2–6 mm, 10–15% of calyx length;

lobes oblong to broadly or narrowly triangular, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes acute.

green, rarely pale purple, lobes white, cream, or pale yellow, 18–24(–27) mm;

abaxial clefts (6–)8–16 mm, adaxial 4–10(–14) mm, abaxial 45–60% of calyx length, adaxial 15–40% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1–4 mm, 5–15% of calyx length;

lobes narrowly triangular to linear, apex acute.

= 72.

= 24.