Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, 10–140(–170) mm, densely glandular-puberulent.

erect, (10–)20–180 mm, glandular-puberulent to short glandular-villous.

basal densely clustered;

petiole absent;

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, (5–)8–45(–60) × (1–)3–12(–20) mm, margins entire, sometimes toothed, plane, not ciliate, apex obtuse, surfaces glandular-puberulent.

usually cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent, base sometimes petiole-like;

blade narrowly elliptic, sometimes broadly elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, (2.5–)6–20(–26) × (1–)2–10(–14) mm, margins crenate to serrulate or entire, plane, apex rounded or acute, surfaces glandular-puberulent.

1–3(–5) mm in fruit.

2–7(–10) mm in fruit.

1 per node, chasmogamous.

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

usually glandular-puberulent.

glandular-puberulent distally.

tricolored, limb and throat magenta to purple, each lobe with a discrete, dark maroon-purple blotch at base, all 3 blotches of abaxial lip round and not usually extending into throat, palate ridges yellow, flanked with white, sometimes purple-spotted, tube-throat (13–)15–50 mm, limb 7–21 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes equal.

rose pink to purplish, limb often pale, especially abaxial lip, abaxial lip often purple-dotted near base, markings often coalescing and forming broken lines radiating toward each lobe, tube yellow, palate ridges yellow with magenta speckling, confluent and extending onto abaxial lip base, tube-throat (8–)11–12 mm, limb 7–12 mm diam., bilabiate.

slightly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, (6–)11–23 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex obtuse, ribs often purplish proximally, intercostal areas whitish.

symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, (5–)7–8 mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas whitish.

(2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent.

8–13 mm.

included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs.

included, ciliate.

nearly exserted, lobes subequal.

exserted, lobes subequal.

= 18.

= 16.