Flora of North America species comparison

few to several, ± decumbent to erect or ascending, unbranched, sometimes with short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs erect to spreading, long, soft, eglandular, mixed with short stipitate-glandular ones.

solitary or few, sometimes several, erect or ascending, unbranched, rarely branched from base or from proximal inflorescence nodes, hairs spreading or reflexed, medium length, ± stiff, distally mixed with scattered, very short stipitate-glandular ones in inflorescences.

green, linear, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, oblong, or cuneate, 0.8–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane to wavy, involute, 0–5-lobed, apex acute, sometimes rounded;

lobes spreading, linear, arising below mid length, nearly as broad as center lobe, apex acute.

green, often with a dull red-purplish cast, linear to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblong, (0.8–)1.5–4 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0(–3)-lobed, apex acuminate to acute;

lobes spreading-ascending, narrowly lanceolate, apex acute.

3–14 × 1.5–4.5 cm;

bracts proximally greenish, rarely dull reddish purple, distally white to cream, rarely pale yellow or dull, pale pink (sharply differentiated from proximal coloration), lanceolate or oblong to narrowly ovate, (3–)5–7-lobed;

lobes ascending, linear to obovate, ± broadened distally, medium, long, proximal lobes arising below mid length, central lobe apex broadly rounded to truncate, others acute to rounded.

2–6.5(–9) × 1.5–3.5 cm;

bracts yellow, pale orange, salmon, pink, dull brick red, or reddish orange throughout, rarely red, or proximally pale greenish, distally colored as above, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 0–3(–7)-lobed;

lobes ascending to erect, linear to lanceolate, short to medium length, arising at or above mid length, central lobe apex obtuse, lateral ones obtuse to acute.

curved, 17–23 mm;

tube 15–19 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green, 5–8(–9) mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

abaxial lip deep purple (color sometimes visible through calyx), green, pinkish, or pale yellow, ± prominent, slightly inflated, usually hidden in calyx, sometimes right at top of calyx, 2 mm, ca. 50% as long as beak;

teeth ascending, whitish, yellowish, pink, or green, 1–1.5 mm.

straight or slightly curved, 21–30(–35) mm;

tube 13–19 mm;

beak subequal to calyx or exserted, adaxially green, 8–14 mm;

abaxial lip whitish to pink with deep green teeth, reduced, not exserted, sometimes visible through front calyx cleft, 0.5–2 mm, 5–15% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, dark green, 0.2–1 mm.

colored as bracts, 15–26 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 3.5–7 mm, 25–50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2–5 mm, 12–25% of calyx length;

lobes linear, oblong, or narrowly triangular, center lobe apex usually rounded, lobes acute to rounded.

colored as bracts, 20–27(–30) mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 6.5–13(–18) mm, 40–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral (2–)4–7.5(–10) mm, 25% of calyx length;

lobes linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex rounded to acute.

= 48.

= 24.