UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Mat leaves thick and firm, glaucous, glabrous or with short, spreading hairs, irregularly serrulate, the broadly elliptic or obovate blade 8-18 mm. long;

leaves of the flowering shoots opposite, few, less than 1 cm. long.

Leaves irregularly arranged, many ternate or whorled, others opposite or single, glabrous or puberulent, all cauline, the lowermost reduced, the others numerous, sessile from a narrow base, linear or narrowly lance-elliptic, up to 5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, irregularly and sharply toothed.

Inflorescence a compact, few-flowered raceme, glandular-hairy;

calyx 6-11 mm. long, the 5 segments narrowly lance-elliptic to ovate-oblong;

corolla bright pink to rose-purple, 25-35 mm. long, keeled on the back, usually glabrous inside and out;

anthers long-woolly;

pollen sacs wholly dehiscent and opening wide enough to form a plane;

staminode slender, shorter that the fertile filaments, nearly glabrous.

Inflorescence a loose panicle, often leafy-bracteate below;

calyx 4-6 mm. long, the 5 segments green or purplish, entire, often unequal;

corolla blue-lavender to light purple-violet, 13-19 mm. long, weakly bilabiate, glandular-hairy outside and glabrous within, the upper lip cleft more than half its length;

anthers 0.9-1.3 mm. long, permanently horseshoe-shaped, the pollen sacs saccate and indehiscent below;

staminode exerted, long-bearded half its length.

Capsule

Capsule 4-6 mm. long