Flora of North America species comparison

few to many, erect to ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched distally, sometimes with leafy axillary shoots, lanate to woolly, hairs dense, spreading to weakly appressed, white to yellowish, medium length, soft, moderately branched or unbranched in different populations, sometimes mixed, eglandular, rarely short stipitate-glandular, mostly obscuring surface.

few to many, erect to ascending, branched, sometimes unbranched, hairs fairly dense, spreading to appressed, white, fairly short, soft, ± felty, eglandular, sometimes mixed sparsely with short stipitate-glandular ones, sometimes obscuring surface.

green to purple, often hidden by matted, white hairs, linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate, (1–)2–7(–10) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, sometimes involute, 0–3-lobed, apex rounded, sometimes acute;

lobes spreading, linear or narrowly oblong, apex rounded to acute.

green to purple, linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 2–7(–9) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes slightly wavy, involute, 3–7-lobed, apex narrowly acute to rounded;

lobes spreading, linear, apex obtuse or acute.

2–19 × 1.5–5 cm;

bracts proximally pale greenish to greenish gray, distally bright red to orange-red, sometimes pinkish, magenta, or salmon, rarely yellow, oblong to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, deeply 0–3(–5)-lobed;

lobes spreading, oblanceolate or linear, long, arising below mid length, distal bract apex usually rounded.

2.6–16 × 2–4 cm;

bracts proximally greenish to deep greenish purple, distally purple, magenta, reddish, pink, or rose, rarely white, cream, light yellow, or dull orangish, proximal linear to lanceolate, distal oblong, 3–7(–9)-lobed;

lobes spreading to ascending, linear to oblanceolate, long, arising from distal 2/3, center lobe apex obtuse to rounded, lateral ones acute to rounded.

curved in proximal 1/3, 23–35(–42) mm;

tube 12–17 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially greenish to yellowish, 11–22 mm;

abaxial lip dark green, reduced, 1–4 mm, ca. 20% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, reduced, green, 0.5–2.5 mm.

slightly curved, 25–40 mm;

tube 16–22 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green, 9–18 mm;

abaxial lip green to purple-red, reduced, not strongly pouched, ± protruding, 4–5 mm, 33–50% as long as beak;

teeth prominent, petaloid, spreading to erect, colored as in distal portion of bracts, 3–4 mm.

proximally whitish to green, central band whitish, distal 1/3 colored as bract lobes, sometimes lighter or deeper, 15–29 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 6–14 mm, ca. 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0–5 mm, 0–5(–15)% of calyx length;

lobes oblong to broadly triangular, apex rounded, truncate, or emarginate.

colored as bracts, (20–)25–34 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts (10–)13–22 mm, 50–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 7–16 mm, 35–45% of calyx length;

lobes broadly linear to long-triangular or oblong, apex acute to obtuse.

= 24.