Flora of North America species comparison

several, decumbent, or ascending, unbranched, hairs moderately dense, spreading, short and long, soft, eglandular and glandular.

solitary, erect, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs spreading, short, soft, often mixed with stipitate-glandular ones.

green to purple, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 0.7–3.2 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, slightly involute, 3–5-lobed, apex narrowly acute to acuminate;

lobes ascending-spreading, narrowly linear to filiform, often curling, often short, apex acute or obtuse.

green to purple-tinged or dark red-brown, linear-lanceolate or distal lanceolate, 2–8(–9) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat to slightly curved up, 0–7-lobed, apex acute to acuminate;

lobes widely spreading or ascending-spreading, linear, apex acute.

2.5–6 × 1–2 cm;

bracts purple, deep burgundy, or lavender throughout, rarely pink or yellowish white throughout, sometimes pink or dull whitish on distal margins and apices, oblong, 3–5(–7)-lobed;

lobes spreading, linear, medium length, proximal lobes arising below mid length, center lobe apex rounded to obtuse, lateral ones acute to obtuse.

2.5–24 × 3–4 cm;

bracts green throughout, lanceolate to ovate, 5–9-lobed;

lobes ascending, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, medium length, arising near mid length, apex acute to acuminate.

straight, 12–15 mm;

tube 14–16 mm;

abaxial lip and beak exserted;

beak adaxially green, 5–6 mm;

abaxial lip colored as distal portion of bracts, prominent, pouches 3, central one grooved, pouches not strongly inflated, 4–5 mm, 80–100% as long as beak;

teeth erect, appressed to beak, colored as distal portions of bracts, 1.5–2.5 mm.

straight, (15–)20–28 mm;

tube 8–24 mm;

abaxial lip, beak, and proximal part of corolla tube exserted;

beak adaxially white, rarely very pale yellow or pale pink-purple, 5–7 mm, inconspicuously puberulent;

abaxial lip white, fading to pink to pink-purple, or yellow, fading to white, rarely then to pink or pink-purple, both forms often with purple or red dots at base, inflated, prominent, pouches 3, 8–10 mm wide, 4–6 mm deep, 4–6 mm, 80–100% as long as beak;

teeth erect, white or yellow, 0.5 mm.

colored as bracts, 10–12 mm; all 4 clefts subequal, 3.5–6.5 mm, 35–55% of calyx length;

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

green, 8–14 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 3–6 mm, 30–50% of calyx length, all 4 clefts subequal;

lobes linear, apex acuminate to acute.

green.

± exserted, as long as or slightly longer than beak and visible from abaxial side.

= 24.