Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending, sometimes pendent, 10–170 mm, densely and finely glandular-puberulent.

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 basal rosettes and proximal cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent, base gradually narrowed to broad, petiole-like extension;

blade oblanceolate, (10–)18–60(–80) × (1.5–)3–15(–26) mm, margins entire, plane, not ciliate, apex acute, surfaces glandular-puberulent.

1–3 mm in fruit.

1–3 mm in fruit.

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

1 or 2 per node, chasmogamous.

glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent.

glandular-puberulent.

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.

limb pinkish white to nearly white with a large magenta-purple round or 2-lobed blotch at base of each lobe, throat and palate ridges golden yellow with magenta speckling, palate ridges short-pilose, throat glabrous, tube-throat 17–35 mm, limb 8–21 mm diam., not bilabiate.

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.

asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, 8–18 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, apex acuminate, ribs green, intercostal areas pale green.

8–12 mm.

3–8 mm, indehiscent until senescence of pedicel, then opening along both sutures only after wetting.

included or exserted, ciliate.

included, glabrous or slightly puberulent at base.

exserted, lobes equal.

included, lobes equal.

= 16.

= 16.