Flora of North America species comparison

inconspicuous to conspicuous (often forming an amorphous mass), slender, usually branched.

relatively conspicuous (forming a globular mass), slender or stout, branched or unbranched.

several to numerous, appressed;

blade lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 5–10 mm, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces sometimes glandular-pubescent.

numerous, large and imbricate proximally, appressed or slightly spreading;

blade lanceolate, 5–10 mm, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.

spikelike racemes, purple, lavender, or pallid distally, rarely yellow, sometimes branched, glandular-pubescent;

flowers numerous;

bracts ± reflexed, lanceolate, 8–12 mm, apex acute or attenuate, densely glandular-pubescent.

dense, pyramidal, thyrsoid panicles, dark purple-brown, imbricately branched, cinereous- to ferruginous-puberulent, hairs eglandular;

flowers numerous;

bracts strongly reflexed, lanceolate-subulate, 3–5 mm, apex acuminate, puberulent.

0–15 mm, much shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

0–5 mm, much shorter than plant axis, sometimes adnate to stem for a portion of their length or flattened;

bracteoles 2.

calyx purple, lavender, or pallid, weakly bilaterally symmetric, 8–14 mm, deeply divided into 5 lobes, lobes lanceolate-subulate, glandular-pubescent;

corolla 14–20 mm, tube white to pallid or cream, sometimes pinkish or light purplish tinged distally, sometimes with purple veins, constricted above ovary, slightly curved forward, glandular-pubescent;

palatal folds prominent, yellow, pubescent;

lips externally white to pallid or cream, sometimes pinkish or light purplish tinged, internally pink or purple, sometimes white with purple veins, rarely light yellow, abaxial lip spreading, 3–5 mm, lobes oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse or rounded, adaxial lip erect or slightly reflexed, 4–6 mm, lobes ovate, sometimes deltate, apex rounded or obtuse to bluntly pointed;

filaments glabrous or pilose at base, anthers included or slightly exserted, glabrous or with few woolly hairs along sutures.

calyx dark purple, weakly bilaterally symmetric, 6–11 mm, divided into 5 unequal lobes, cleft to base on adaxial side, otherwise deeply lobed, lobes attenuate, puberulent;

corolla 10–18 mm, tube dark purple, wine colored, or dark gray, sometimes dark pink, slightly constricted above ovary, ± straight, puberulent;

palatal folds not prominent, pale yellow, glabrous;

lips purple to dark purple or wine colored, sometimes dark pink or with darker pink to purple veins, sometimes internally variegated with white, dark gray externally, abaxial lip spreading, 2–4 mm, lobes narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acute, often bluntly pointed, adaxial lip erect, spreading at tip, 2–4 mm, lobes triangular to oblong-triangular, apex acute, sometimes with a minute tooth;

filaments glabrous, anthers included, minutely apiculate at base, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

ovoid, 6–13 mm.

narrowly ovoid, 5–6 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

= 48.

= 48.