Flora of North America species comparison

few to many, decumbent to ascending, much-branched, with leafy axillary shoots, villous, hairs spreading, long, stiff to soft, eglandular, mixed with short-glandular ones.

gray-green becoming ± purple, or green, ± cup-shaped, oblong to narrowly elliptic or suborbicular, 0.5–2(–5) cm, ± fleshy, cupulate throughout, sometimes obscurely so on distal portion of stem, margins plane, flat to involute, 0–3-lobed, apex rounded;

lobes ascending, oblong to rounded, apex truncate or rounded, sometimes ± acute.

5–23 × 1.5–3.5 cm;

bracts proximally greenish, distally bright red or red-orange, sometimes orange, oblong, ovate, or widely cuneate to widely obovate to suborbiculate, sometimes cup-shaped, 0–3-lobed, sometimes with 3 additional shallow teeth at tip of central lobe;

lobes erect, oblong to broadly triangular, short, arising above mid length, apex truncate, rounded, or obtuse, lateral ones sometimes acute.

straight or slightly curved, 28–45 mm;

tube 18–20 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green or yellow-green, 15–25 mm;

abaxial lip deep green, reduced, visible in front cleft, 1–1.5 mm, 10% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, green, 0.5–1 mm.

colored as bracts, often with a yellow central band, 20–31 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 8–12 mm, ca. 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2–6 mm, 10–15% of calyx length;

lobes oblong to broadly or narrowly triangular, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes acute.

= 72.