Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, 20–80(–120) cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent, puberulent, and/or pilose.

erect or ascending, rarely decumbent, not fleshy, hairy or glabrous.

puberulent, often pilose, or glabrous;

proximal 20–60 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes 0.5–1 mm wide;

distal 10–40 × 0.3–2 mm, margins entire.

cauline, alternate;

petiole absent;

blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire or 3–7-lobed.

spikes, 2–7-flowered, or flowers solitary;

bracts 1–4, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes green or purple distally, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apex rounded.

terminal, spikes or flowers solitary, often capitate;

bracts present.

bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire or toothed.

absent;

bracteoles absent.

calyx 10–20 mm, tube 0 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 1 mm;

corolla pale yellow, marked with purple along veins and galea, 10–20 mm, throat 6–8 mm diam., abaxial lip 4–6 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial;

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

sepals 2, calyx bilaterally symmetric, spathelike, lobes triangular;

petals 5, corolla yellow, yellow-green, purple, pink, or red, strongly bilabiate, club-shaped, abaxial lobes 3, middle lobe tightly revolute, tip distinctly folded inside-out, adaxial 2, adaxial lip galeate, rounded at apex, opening downward;

stamens (2 or)4, didynamous, filaments hairy or glabrous;

staminode 0;

ovary 2-locular, placentation axile;

stigma slightly expanded at apex.

narrowly ovoid, 5–10 mm.

dehiscence loculicidal.

6–16, dark brown, ovoid to rhomboid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate.

4–25, pale brown to dark brown, ovoid to reniform, wings absent.

= 6, 7.