Flora of North America species comparison

erect, not viny, 1.5-6.5 dm, hirsute (sometimes sparsely so in var. hirsutissima) or densely short, soft-pubescent to nearly glabrous.

erect to ± sprawling, not viny, 2-7 dm,, sparsely to ± densely pilose.

blade 2-3-pinnate;

leaflets often deeply 2-several-lobed, if lobed than lateral lobes usually small and distinctly narrower than central portion, leaflets or lobes linear to lanceolate, 1-6 × 0.05-1.5 cm, thin, not prominently reticulate;

surfaces sparsely to densely silky-hirsute, not glaucous.

blade narrowly to broadly ovate, unlobed or rarely few-lobed, 3-14 × (1.5-)2.5-8(-9.5) cm, ± leathery, reticulate adaxially;

surfaces abaxially moderately silky-pilose with spreading hairs or rarely nearly glabrous, not glaucous.

terminal, flowers solitary.

terminal, flowers solitary;

bracts absent.

broadly cylindric to urn-shaped;

sepals very dark violet-blue or rarely pink or white, oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-4.5 cm, margins narrowly expanded distally, 0.5-2 mm wide, thin, distally ± crisped, tomentose, tips obtuse to acute, slightly spreading, abaxially usually densely hirsute, occasionally moderately so.

narrowly urn-shaped;

sepals pale yellow to pale purple, lanceolate, 1-3.5 cm, margins not expanded, thin, not crispate, tomentose, tip obtuse, spreading to recurved, abaxially silky-pubescent.

bodies densely long-pubescent;

beak 4-9 cm, plumose.

bodies pilose, hairs appressed-ascending;

beak yellowish brown to reddish brown, 3-6 cm, plumose.

= 16.