Flora of North America species comparison

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

puberulent, sometimes scabrous;

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

distal 5–25 × 1 mm, margins entire.

bracts puberulent, lobes purple distally, apex slightly rounded to retuse.

capitate spikes, 3–14-flowered;

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

bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire.

calyx tube 2–3 mm;

corolla lavender to pink, blotched purple, lips yellow;

filaments hairy throughout.

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.

oblong-lanceoloid, 7–10 mm.

minutely papillate.

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

= 26.