Flora of North America species comparison

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.

few to several, erect or ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs retrorse, short, soft, eglandular.

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.

green to purple, linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–3.3 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex acuminate;

lobes ascending-spreading to widely spreading, narrowly linear, apex acute.

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.

4–5 × 1.5–2.5 cm;

bracts greenish throughout, or proximally greenish, distally bright yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-orange on apices, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0–5(–7)-lobed;

lobes spreading, filiform to linear, long, proximal lobes arising in proximal 1/2, apex acute to acuminate.

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.

straight or slightly curved, 18–21 mm;

tube 13–15 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially yellow to yellow-green, 6–8 mm;

abaxial lip green, reduced, visible in front cleft, slightly pouched, 2.5–3.5 mm, 35–60% as long as beak;

teeth erect, yellow, 1 mm.

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.

light green to yellowish, margins sometimes yellow, 10–17 mm;

abaxial clefts 8–9 mm, adaxial 2–3 mm, abaxial ca. 50% of calyx length, adaxial ca. 20% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1.9–2.5 mm, 12–20% of calyx length;

lobes narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate.

= 24.