Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, 400–700 mm, minutely hirtellous to hirsutulous with slightly deflexed, eglandular hairs.

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.

cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent;

blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, (10–)20–55 × 4–17 mm, margins entire, serrulate, or mucronulate, plane or revolute, apex obtuse or rounded to acute, surfaces glabrous.

1–3(–5) mm in fruit.

5–12 mm in fruit.

1 per node, chasmogamous.

2 per node, chasmogamous.

usually glandular-puberulent.

sparsely minutely glandular.

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.

pale yellow or nearly white to pale orange or light yellow-orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow to golden yellow, tube-throat 35–45 mm, limb 30–45 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes each apically incised 1/4–1/2 length, appearing 2-lobed.

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.

not inflated in fruit, 20–30 mm, glabrous except for lobe apices, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes subequal, apex acute.

(2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent.

15–25 mm.

included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs.

included, glabrous.

nearly exserted, lobes subequal.

included, lobes equal.

= 18.

= 20.