Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending, 20–140 mm, distal internodes 1–3 mm, glandular-pubescent and 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 or slightly reduced distally;

petiole absent, base sometimes tapered to narrow, petiole-like extension;

blade obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 13–33 × 5–12(–16) mm, margins entire, plane, apex acuminate, surfaces densely glandular-villous.

1–3(–5) mm in fruit.

2–3(–5) 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.

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.

magenta to red-purple with a yellow patch on palate, sometimes yellow with a red-brown patch, palate ridges orange-yellow, tube-throat 9–11 mm, limb 12–15 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, 7–9(–10) mm, coarsely glandular-pubescent, lobes subequal, apex lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, ribs purplish, intercostal areas white.

(2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent.

6–8 mm.

included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs.

exserted, sparsely hirsutulous.

nearly exserted, lobes subequal.

exserted, lobes subequal.

= 18.