Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent or prostrate to erect [climbing], villous to glandular-hairy [glabrous].

petiole 2–6 mm;

blade: proximal 15–35 × 10–30 mm, base truncate or rounded to cuneate, distal 4–25 × 2–14 mm, base hastate to sagittate, villous with scattered glandular hairs.

cauline, alternate, sometimes opposite proximally;

petiole present;

blade oblong-ovate to orbiculate or cordate, not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire or dentate [lobed].

axillary, flowers solitary;

bracts absent.

10–22 mm.

present, spreading;

bracteoles absent.

sepal lobes lanceolate, 3–6 × 1–2 mm, not accrescent, apex acuminate, villous;

corolla tube 1–2 mm, palate yellow, inflated, hairy, spurs 5–6 mm, abaxial lobes yellow to violet, adaxial blue to violet, 2–3 mm;

abaxial filaments 1.5–2 mm, adaxial 1–1.5 mm;

style included, 1.3–1.5 mm;

stigma straight.

bisexual;

sepals 5, basally connate, equal, calyx radially symmetric, campanulate, lobes lanceolate [linear], villous;

corolla yellow [white], often tinged blue to violet [red], bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate and personate, tubular, tube base not gibbous, spurred abaxially, lobes 5, abaxial 3, spreading, adaxial 2, erect, subequal, apex round;

stamens 4, basally adnate to corolla, didynamous, included, filaments incurved, sparsely hairy or glabrous, anthers coherent, ciliate, pollen sacs oblong;

staminode 0;

ovary 2-locular, villous, locules subequal, placentation axile;

stigma capitate.

capsules, dehiscence poricidal [indehiscent].

ovoid-globular, 3–5 mm.

1–1.5 mm, cristate-tuberculate.

[6–]20–40[–60], dark brown to black, oblong-ovoid [reniform], wings absent.

= 9.

= 36.