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, all cauline, the lowermost reduced, the others numerous, sessile, lanceolate to broadly oblong, 4-10 cm. long and 1-3 cm. wide, sharply serrate or occasionally sub-entire.

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 a narrow, terminal panicle, or nearly a raceme;

calyx 2.5-6.5 mm. long, the 5 segments scarious margined and toothed, usually glabrous;

corolla bright lavender to purple-violet, 25-38 mm. long, over 1 cm. wide at the mouth, glabrous inside and out except for the marginal hairs on the lobes; the 4 fertile filaments pubescent toward the tip, the lower pair exerted;

anthers permanently horseshoe-shaped, 1.6-2.0 mm. long;

pollen sacs remaining saccate and indehiscent on the lower half, glabrous except for the hairs along the sutures;

staminode shortly exerted, with a long, white beard along the flattened tip.

Capsule

Capsule 6-9 mm. long.