Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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 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(–5) mm in fruit.

1–3 mm in fruit.

1 per node, chasmogamous.

1 or 2 per node, 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.

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.

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.

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

(2–)3–8(–10) mm, indehiscent.

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

included, with apical tufts of short, eglandular hairs.

included, glabrous or slightly puberulent at base.

nearly exserted, lobes subequal.

included, lobes equal.

= 18.

= 16.