Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, unbranched or branched, hairs spreading, long, soft, scattered among more numerous, medium length, stipitate-glandular ones.

solitary or few, erect, unbranched, rarely branched distally, hairs sparse to dense, spreading, sometimes shaggy (var. minor), short to long, soft to stiff, eglandular and/or sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular.

green or purplish, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0–5(–7)-lobed, apex acuminate;

lobes spreading to ascending, linear, apex acuminate to acute.

green or purple to ± gray, linear to lanceolate, 2–10 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes wavy, ± involute, 0-lobed, apex acuminate to acute, sometimes obtuse.

(1.5–)3–14 × 2–3 cm;

bracts green throughout, sometimes proximally green, distally white on apices, lanceolate to ovate, 3–7-lobed;

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

5–40 × 1–4 cm;

bracts proximally greenish, distally red, red-orange, or pale orange, rarely yellow, on apices, narrowly lanceolate, sometimes narrowly oblong to spatulate distally, 0-lobed, plane-margined, apex acuminate (oblong to narrowly spatulate in var. spiralis).

straight, 10–22 mm;

tube 8–15 mm;

abaxial lip and beak exserted;

beak adaxially yellow to greenish, 3–6 mm, densely puberulent;

abaxial lip yellow with purple dots at base, inflated, pouches 3, central pouch slightly 2-lobed, pouches 4–8 mm wide, 3–6 mm deep, side pouches curving up a little at tip, 2–5 mm, 75–95% as long as beak;

teeth erect, white or yellow, 0.5–2 mm.

straight, 13–39 mm;

tube 11–16(–20) mm;

beak partially to completely exserted, sometimes included, adaxially yellow, pale orange to red-orange, reddish brown, green, or white, 5–15(–20) mm;

abaxial lip yellow, white, red, deep red, red-violet, or green, colored as or strongly contrasting with rest of corolla, small but jutting out at 90° from axis of corolla, often readily visible through abaxial cleft, 1–3 mm, 5–25% as long as beak;

teeth spreading to strongly incurved, green, white, yellow, red, or red-purple, 0.2–1 mm.

light green, lobes green, 7–13 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 3.5–8 mm, 50–67% of calyx length, lateral 2.5–5 mm, ca. 40% of calyx length;

lobes narrowly to broadly lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate.

green or yellowish green, 13–27(–28) mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 6–15 mm, 33–75% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–4 mm, 5–20% of calyx length;

lobes linear to narrowly triangular or narrowly lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate.

equal to or slightly exserted from beak.

= 22, 24.

= 24.