Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually inconspicuous (sometimes forming an irregular mass), slender, unbranched or with short bifurcations.

several to numerous, appressed;

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

few to several, appressed;

blade broadly lanceolate or ovate, 5–10 mm, margins entire or slightly erose, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces often glandular-pubescent.

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.

racemelike to elongate corymbs or short racemes (sometimes corymbose), rose, pink, purple, or white, simple, densely glandular-pubescent;

flowers numerous (rarely 10 or fewer in depauperate plants);

bracts slightly reflexed, narrowly lanceolate or almost linear, 7–11 mm, apex acute, glandular-pubescent.

0–15 mm, much shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

3–20 mm proximally, 0 mm distally, shorter than plant axis;

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 lavender, pink, white, or yellow, sometimes burgundy, ± radially symmetric, 12–24 mm, deeply divided into 5 subequal (reflexed or contorted) lobes, lobes linear-subulate, densely glandular-pubescent;

corolla (15–)18–34 mm, tube white to grayish white, pale pink to pink, or pale purple to purple, rarely brick red, sometimes with darker pink to purple veins, slightly constricted above ovary, bent forward, glandular-pubescent or glabrate;

palatal folds prominent, yellow, glabrous (with blisterlike swellings);

lips white to ± pink, pale purple to purple, brick red, or pinkish red, sometimes with darker pink to purple veins or internally darker, abaxial lip spreading, 5–9 mm, lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or rounded, adaxial lip erect or reflexed, 5–9 mm, lobes oblong, apex rounded, truncate, or emarginate, rarely acute;

filaments glabrous, anthers included, tomentose, sometimes glabrous (subsp. mutabilis).

ovoid, 6–13 mm.

ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 5–13 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

= 48.