Flora of North America species comparison

erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent.

erect to ascending, 0–100(–120) mm, glandular-puberulent and/or glandular-pubescent.

basal and cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent;

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic-lanceolate, (1–)3–30(–50) × (0.4–)0.7–8(–20) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces minutely glandular-puberulent.

usually cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent, larger with petiole-like extension;

blade oblanceolate to elliptic, (4–)8–32(–37) × (1.5–)2.5–14(–18) mm, margins entire or crenate, plane, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous or puberulent and/or pilose adaxially.

1–3 mm in fruit.

(1–)2–5 mm in fruit, usually twisting to invert calyx.

2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous.

2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous or cleistogamous.

glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent.

glandular-pubescent.

magenta to purplish, dark line often extending onto each abaxial lip lobe from throat, palate ridges yellow with red-purple speckling and border, throat floor villous with hairs extending onto abaxial lip, tube 1.1–1.9 mm diam. at filament insertion, tube-throat 11–15 mm, limb 8–14 mm diam., usually, rarely not, bilabiate.

throat whitish to dark magenta, not golden yellow at base, lobes magenta, without markings or with dark magenta dots and, sometimes, some yellow at bases of abaxial lobes, palate ridges absent or purple, tube-throat 8–30 mm, limb 3–9 mm diam., bilabiate, abaxial lobe usually smaller than adaxial.

symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 6–9 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex acute-apiculate, acuminate, or attenuate, ribs dark green or reddish, intercostal areas whitish.

distinctly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, inflated in fruit, 5–14 mm, sparsely pilose, lobes subequal, apex obtuse, ribs green to purplish, intercostal areas whitish.

8–12 mm.

4–8.5 mm, indehiscent.

included or exserted, ciliate.

(distal pair) exserted, glabrous.

exserted, lobes equal.

exserted, lobes unequal, abaxial 3–4 times adaxial.

= 16.

= 18.