Flora of North America species comparison

few to many, erect or ascending, often decumbent at base, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs spreading, long, soft, mixed with dense, shorter stipitate-glandular ones.

several to many, erect or ascending, sometimes curved at base, unbranched or branched, sometimes with short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading, short or long and distally short, stiff or soft, stipitate-glandular.

green or purple-tinged, sometimes deep purple, broadly lanceolate, sometimes linear-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 1.5–4.8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat or involute, 0–3-lobed, apex acute;

lobes ascending or spreading, linear to narrowly linear or narrowly lanceolate, short, apex acuminate.

green to sometimes purple, narrowly oblong or lanceolate to sometimes linear or narrowly ovate, (0.8–)1–5(–6.5) cm, not fleshy, margins wavy, flat or involute, 0–5-lobed, apex rounded or obtuse, rarely acute;

lobes ascending-spreading or divaricate, linear to narrowly oblong, apex acute.

3–17 × 1–3 cm;

bracts greenish or pale yellow-green throughout, or proximally greenish or pale yellow-green, distally pale yellow to whitish, sometimes pink-purple, or pale, dull purplish, sometimes aging pink or yellow, often infused with light purple, rarely pink, ovate to broadly acute, (0–)3-lobed;

lobes ascending, linear-lanceolate, oblong, or triangular, short, arising below mid length, apex acute to obtuse.

2.5–25 × 1.5–4 cm;

bracts proximally greenish, distally red, orange-red, or pale orange, rarely yellow, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate to oblong, (0–)3–5(–7)-lobed, plus 1–3 shallow teeth on apex of central lobe (var. clokeyi);

lobes ascending or spreading, linear, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, medium length or long, arising at or near mid length, central lobe apex obtuse to rounded, lateral ones acute.

straight, (16–)20–25 mm;

tube 15–18 mm;

beak slightly exserted, adaxially green to yellow, 5.5–8.5 mm;

abaxial lip white, green and white, pink, or purple, ± prominent, appressed (proximally scarcely or not pouched), 3–5 mm, 67% as long as beak;

teeth erect, white or pink with some purple or red, 1.5–2.5 mm.

straight to slightly curved, (19–)22–45 mm;

tube 11–22 mm;

abaxial lip rarely exserted, beak exserted;

beak adaxially green to yellowish, 9–21(–23) mm;

abaxial lip green or deep green with white teeth or red with green teeth, reduced, not inflated, often visible through front cleft, 1–2 mm, ca. 10% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, green to white, 0.5–1 mm.

proximally green, pale with green veins, purple-tinged green, or purple, distally pale yellow, white, or purplish, 12–20 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 8–12 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–3 mm, 5–15% of calyx length;

lobes short-triangular, apex obtuse, rounded, or truncate.

proximally pale green, green, or whitish, sometimes with a yellow central band, distally colored as bracts, 14–26(–28) mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 3–10 mm, 20–50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1–5 mm, 15–20% of calyx length;

lobes lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded.

= 24, 48, 72.