Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, 10–80 cm, puberulent, glabrescent.

ascending, 20–80 cm, densely puberulent and glandular-puberulent, sometimes pilose.

puberulent, sometimes scabrous;

proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide;

distal 5–25 × 1 mm, margins entire.

densely glandular-puberulent;

proximal 5–30 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide;

distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire.

capitate spikes, 3–14-flowered;

bracts 5–10, 5–20 mm, margins 5–7-lobed, lobes purple or yellow-green, linear to filiform.

spikes, 2(or 3)-flowered, or flowers solitary;

bracts 1–3, 5–10 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes white to cream distally, linear or slightly spatulate, apex rounded to retuse.

bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire.

bracteoles 10–15 mm, margins entire.

calyx 10–20 mm, tube 1–3 mm, apex entire or 2-fid, cleft 0–0.5 mm;

corolla pink to lavender-pink, usually spotted with purple, 10–20 mm, throat 4–6 mm diam., abaxial lip pink or yellow, 3–6 mm, shorter than and appressed to adaxial;

stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal.

calyx 10–15 mm, tube 1 mm, apex entire;

corolla white with purple veins, apex yellow, 10–18 mm, throat 5–8 mm diam., abaxial lip 3–5 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial;

stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 1 per filament, vestigial pollen sacs present.

oblong-lanceoloid, 7–10 mm.

ovoid-oblong, 5–8 mm.

10–15, pale brown, ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate.

6–10, dark brown, ovoid, 2.5–3 mm, striate.

= 28.