Flora of North America species comparison

erect, spreading, or decumbent, 10–40 cm, puberulent or villous, sometimes glabrescent, hairs glandular and eglandular.

15–30 cm, puberulent and often villous or short-pilose;

branches decumbent to ascending, distals usually overtopping central spike.

blades narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–8 mm, margins entire.

2–9 cm;

bracts often purple distally, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 15–30 mm, margins entire or distally 2-toothed.

bract margins entire or slightly notched.

calyx 15–25 mm;

corolla white to pale yellow or pale pink, 15–25 mm, lobes 4–5 mm, often marked with red-brown or purple-red lines;

stamens 4, proximal with 2 pollen sacs, distal pair with 1 pollen sac and 1 infertile appendage;

staminodes 0.

corolla tube and abaxial lip pale yellow to white, galea purple-red or brown-red.

narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm.

10–40, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest.

15–20, 1.5–2.5 mm.

= 30.