Flora of North America species comparison

several, decumbent, often sprawling, distally ascending, unbranched unless injured, rarely with small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading, whitish, short, ± stiff, eglandular.

several, erect or ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs sparse, spreading or retrorse, moderately long, soft, crisped, eglandular, mixed with shorter ones.

gray-green, sometimes green or reddish purple, reduced and scalelike on proximal 10–25% of stem, linear, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 1.5–4(–5) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat or involute, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex acute;

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

green, brown, or purple, linear to lanceolate, 1.5–6 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, rarely ± wavy, involute, 3–5(–7)-lobed, apex acuminate to acute;

lobes widely spreading, deep, linear to narrowly lanceolate, lateral lobes not much narrower than central one, apex acuminate.

2.5–10 × 2.5–5 cm;

bracts proximally green to deep greenish purple, distally bright red, sometimes brick red or orange-red, linear to lanceolate, 3–5(–7)-lobed;

lobes spreading, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes expanded near tip, long, arising near base and more distally, apex acute to obtuse.

3–22 (longer in fruit) × 1–5 cm;

bracts proximally greenish to deep purplish, distally bright red or scarlet, sometimes orange to pale yellow, linear, (3–)5–7-lobed, sometimes with secondary lobes;

lobes spreading, linear to oblanceolate, long, arising below mid length, apex acute to obtuse.

straight or slightly curved, 25–40(–45) mm;

tube 11–24 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green to yellow, 10–17(–20) mm;

abaxial lip green, reduced, visible through front cleft, 1.5–2.5 mm, 10–15% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, green, 0.5–1 mm.

straight, 20–35 mm;

tube 13–23 mm;

beak and usually part of abaxial lip exserted;

beak adaxially green, 6.9–13 mm;

abaxial lip deep green, reduced, thickened, included or visible through front calyx cleft, 1.7–3.8 mm, 10–25% as long as beak;

teeth incurved, yellow or deep green, 0.7–1.7 mm.

colored as bracts, 18–33 mm;

abaxial clefts 6–12 mm, adaxial 8–15 mm, clefts 40–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2–6 mm, 15–25% of calyx length;

lobes lanceolate or narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate.

colored as bracts, sometimes paler proximally, 15–26(–33) mm;

abaxial clefts 4–7.4 mm, adaxial 7–10 mm, abaxial 21–37% of calyx length, adaxial 28–51% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1.5–3.5(–5) mm, 8–18% of calyx length;

lobes lanceolate to triangular, apex acute.

= 24.

= 48.