Flora of North America species comparison

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

conspicuous (usually forming an irregularly globular mass), stout, unbranched.

several to numerous, appressed;

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

numerous, appressed proximally, spreading distally;

blade lanceolate to oblong-ovate or triangular-ovate, 6–20 mm, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces usually 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.

open, cylindric panicles, ochraceous, red-brown, purple or purple streaked, yellow, or cream-white, loosely branched, rarely simple, cinereous glandular-puberulent;

flowers numerous, widely spaced proximally, clustered distally;

bracts reflexed, narrowly lanceolate, 3–6 mm, apex acuminate, moderately glandular-puberulent.

0–15 mm, much shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

0–2(–6) mm, much 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 yellow, brown, or purple, ± radially symmetric, 5–8 mm, divided into 5 subequal lobes, lobes slightly shorter than to ca. as long as tube, subulate, puberulent;

corolla 13–19 mm, tube white, cream, or light yellow, sometimes reddish brown to purple tinged or with reddish brown or purple veins, strongly constricted above ovary, bent forward, glandular-pubescent;

palatal folds not prominent, pale or light yellow, glabrous;

lips externally white, cream, or light yellow, sometimes reddish or purplish tinged distally or with reddish brown to purple veins, internally reddish brown to purple, sometimes pale with reddish brown or purple veins, abaxial lip spreading, 3–4 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, apex rounded, adaxial lip spreading, 3–4 mm, lobes lanceolate, apex rounded, acute, or emarginate;

filaments with ring of hairs at base, anthers included or 1 pair exserted, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

ovoid, 6–13 mm.

ovoid, 6–7 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

= 48.

= 48.