Flora of North America species comparison

several, erect to ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched, glabrous or hairs spreading, short and long, ± stiff, sometimes stipitate-glandular especially distally.

few to many, erect or ascending, short-decumbent at base, unbranched, hairs dense, spreading to erect, ± short, soft, usually stipitate-glandular, longer ones sometimes eglandular.

green, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, (1–)2–5(–6) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat or involute, (0–)3(–5)-lobed, apex acute to rounded;

lobes erect or ascending, linear, lanceolate, or triangular, sometimes very small, apex acute to rounded.

pale green to dull reddish maroon, linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.8–3.5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, slightly involute, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex acuminate;

lateral lobes ascending to spreading, linear-lanceolate, usually arising from distal 1/2 of blade, usually narrower than central lobe, apex acuminate to acute.

3–6 × 2–4 cm;

bracts proximally greenish, distally pale orange or pale yellow, sometimes red-orange, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic to ovate, sometimes obovate, 3–5-lobed;

lobes ascending, linear, medium length to long, arising at or below mid length, apex acute to obtuse.

10–40(–80 with age) × 0.5–2.5 cm;

bracts pale cream to pale greenish yellow throughout, often partly to entirely suffused with dull reddish purple to maroon, especially proximally, along veins, and with age, sometimes distal apices pale, dullish red, lanceolate to ovate, usually 3-lobed, central lobe sometimes with short teeth;

lobes spreading-ascending, linear-lanceolate, short to medium length, arising at or above mid length, apex acute.

straight, 20–30 mm;

tube 12–19 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green, 7–12 mm;

abaxial lip green, reduced, included or visible through cleft, 1.5–2 mm, 10–20% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, deep green, 1.5 mm.

straight, 16.5–25 mm;

tube 12–18 mm;

beak scarcely exserted, adaxially pale green to yellowish, 3–7 mm;

abaxial lip green, not inflated, grooved, 2.5 mm, 33–50% as long as beak;

teeth slightly incurved, white, 1 mm.

colored as bracts, 17–22(–24) mm;

abaxial clefts 9–12(–13) mm, adaxial 7–11 mm, clefts 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2–6.5(–8.5) mm, 20–50% of calyx length;

lobes lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse.

pale cream to pale greenish yellow, sometimes reddish violet to maroon on distal segments and/or with a thin vertical strip of pale reddish violet to maroon along veins, 11–20 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 7–12 mm, 60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–1 mm, 5–10% of calyx length;

lobes triangular, apex acute to obtuse.