UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves opposite, glabrous, the largest on short, sterile shoots, serrulate or nearly entire, short-petiolate, the blades elliptic, 1.5-3.5 cm. long and 6-14 mm. wide;

leaves of the flowering shoots less crowded, smaller, sessile and entire.

Leaves opposite, entire, the basal ones petiolate, oblanceolate, forming well-developed rosettes, up to 15 cm. long and 2 cm. wide;

cauline leaves few, well-developed, sessile, not over 10 cm. long and 2 cm. wide.

Inflorescence racemose, few-flowered and crowded, glandular, the simple pedicels opposite and axillary;

calyx 5-12 mm. long, the 5 segments thin and lanceolate;

corolla bright purple to deep blue-violet, 30-38 mm. long, about 1 cm. wide at the mouth, keeled on the back, glabrous outside and with long, white hairs near the base of the lower lip within;

anthers long-wooly, pollen sacs opposite;

staminode slender, shorter than the 4 fertile filaments, long-bearded toward the tip

Inflorescence of 1-several dense verticillasters, the flowers spreading at right angles to the stem;

calyx 3.5-5 mm. long, the 5 segments broadly scarious-margined, abruptly contracted to a narrow, pointed tip;

corolla blue-purple, 11-15 mm. long, bilabiate, the tube expanded, 3-5 mm. wide at the mouth; raised portion of the lower petal bearded;

staminode usually bearded at the expanded tip;

pollen sacs glabrous, ovate, 0.6-1.0 mm. long, not quite opening to the tip.

Capsule

Capsule 5-6 mm. long