Flora of North America species comparison

solitary or few to many, erect, branched distally, sometimes unbranched or with short, leafy branches in axils of leaves, glabrous, sometimes hairy, hairs moderately dense, spreading, short, soft, eglandular.

few to several, ascending to erect, unbranched, hairs moderately dense, often retrorse, short, ± stiff, stipitate-glandular distally only in inflorescence.

green, sometimes purplish, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 1–9 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 3–5(–9)-lobed, apex acuminate to narrowly acute;

lobes spreading, linear, arising near or below mid length, apex acute, rarely obtuse.

appressed-ascending, green to purplish, linear to narrowly lanceolate, distal sometimes broadly lanceolate, (1–)2.5–4(–5.5) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0(–5)-lobed, apex rounded to acuminate;

lobes ascending, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute.

3–15(–20) × 1.5–3 cm;

bracts proximally pale greenish to pale yellowish green, distally white, cream, or pale yellow, sometimes pale greenish, pale yellow-green, or pale yellow throughout, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3–5(–7)-lobed;

lobes ascending or spreading, linear to very narrowly linear, long, arising above or below mid length, apex acute to obtuse.

2–7 × 1.5–2 cm;

bracts proximally pale green to pale yellow-green, distally pale to bright yellow or cream, rarely pale orange, elliptic, narrowly ovate, elliptic-oblong, broadly lanceolate, or ovate, (0–)3(–5)-lobed;

lobes ascending or spreading, narrowly lanceolate, short, arising near tip on distal bracts, central lobe apex rounded to truncate, lateral ones acute to rounded.

straight or ± curved, 16–25 mm;

tube 15–17 mm;

beak exserted from calyx, adaxially green, 5–7 mm;

abaxial lip deep green, reduced, exserted through abaxial cleft, 1–4 mm, 40–60% as long as beak;

teeth erect, white, 0.5–1 mm.

straight, 17–25 mm;

tube 9–13 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green, 6–8(–12) mm, margins red or reddish brown, short-hairy;

abaxial lip green, reduced, sometimes exserted, 1.5–2 mm, 10–15% as long as beak, glabrous;

teeth erect, green, 0.5–1.5 mm.

green, rarely pale purple, lobes white, cream, or pale yellow, 18–24(–27) mm;

abaxial clefts (6–)8–16 mm, adaxial 4–10(–14) mm, abaxial 45–60% of calyx length, adaxial 15–40% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1–4 mm, 5–15% of calyx length;

lobes narrowly triangular to linear, apex acute.

proximally green to yellowish, distal 1/2 yellow, (16–)18–25 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts (8–)9.5–12.5 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–5(–6) mm, 5–20% of calyx length;

lobes lanceolate to ovate, apex acute to obtuse.

= 24.