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, erect, unbranched or branched, hairs spreading, medium length and long, soft to ± stiff, mixed with shorter stipitate-glandular ones.

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 to purple, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 0.5–4.2 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0(–5)-lobed, apex acuminate to acute;

lobes ascending to erect, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate.

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.

1.5–15 × 1.5–3 cm;

bracts green throughout, or proximally green, distally white to rarely cream on apices, with a tuft of erect, white, soft hairs, especially when immature, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 3–5-lobed;

lobes ascending, linear to lanceolate, long, proximal lobes arising near base, apex obtuse to acute.

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 slightly curved distally, 12–25 mm;

tube 18 mm;

abaxial lip and beak exserted;

beak adaxially white or pale yellow, 3.5–9 mm, hairs dense, spreading, medium length, obscuring surface;

abaxial lip yellow, inflated, abruptly expanded, obpyramidal, pouches 3, central pouch slightly 2-lobed, 4–5 mm deep, 3–8 mm, 75–90% as long as beak;

teeth erect, whitish to pale yellow, 1–2 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.

light green, lobes deep green, sometimes purple, 5.5–12 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 2.5–6.5 mm, 30–50% of calyx length, lateral 2–4.5 mm, 30–40% of calyx length;

lobes linear to narrowly lanceolate or triangular, apex acuminate or acute.

= 72.

= 24.