Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect to ascending-erect or sprawling, 200–1500(–2000) mm, glabrous.

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 linear-oblong or narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 10–60 × 1–11(–15) mm, margins entire or serrate, plane or revolute, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.

1–3(–5) mm in fruit.

5–25 mm in fruit.

1 per node, chasmogamous.

2(–4) per node, chasmogamous.

usually glandular-puberulent.

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.

deep red, orange-red, or orange to maroon, throat sometimes orangish, palate ridges red, rarely yellow, tube-throat 27–35 mm, limb 15–23 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, apex truncate, sometimes notched.

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, 17–25 mm, glabrous, lobes unequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green.

(2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent.

14–22 mm.

included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs.

(distal pair) exserted, glabrous.

nearly exserted, lobes subequal.

exserted, lobes equal.

= 18.

= 20.