Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several, ascending to erect, or slightly decumbent at base, unbranched, hairy, sometimes glabrate near base, hairs erect-ascending, whitish or yellowish, long, soft, eglandular, mixed with shorter stipitate-glandular ones, especially distally.

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.

green to sometimes purple-tinged, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, (1.2–)2–6(–9) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes ± wavy, flat to ± involute, 0-lobed, sometimes 3-lobed distally, immediately below inflorescence, apex acuminate to caudate;

lobes ascending to erect, linear to lanceolate, lateral lobes narrower than central, apex acuminate.

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.

1.5–9 × 1.5–3 cm;

bracts purple to pink-purple or reddish purple throughout, sometimes proximally purple to pink-purple or reddish purple, distally whitish or pale pink, oblong to lanceolate or narrowly ovate, (0–)3–7-lobed;

lobes spreading-ascending, linear-lanceolate, narrow, short or long, arising near or above mid length, center lobe apex rounded to sometimes acute, lateral ones acute.

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.

straight, 18–28 mm;

tube 17–20 mm;

abaxial lip generally visible between calyx lobes, sometimes exserted above them, beak exserted;

beak adaxially green, yellowish green, or purplish green, 4–8 mm;

abaxial lip purple or magenta, medium sized, often visible through or above abaxial cleft, pouches 3, slightly inflated, 3–5.5 mm, 50+% as long as beak;

teeth ascending, purple or magenta, 1–1.5 mm.

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.

yellow to yellow-green, rarely purplish to dull red throughout, 19–25 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 10–17 mm, 60–70% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral (2–)5–8 mm, 20–25% of calyx length;

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

= 24.

= 24.