Flora of North America species comparison

dark red-brown or purple, sometimes yellow, (100–)140–260(–300) mm, stout, 10–30 mm diam.

imbricate;

blade lanceolate, ovate, or broadly triangular, 7–12 × 7–15 mm, margins entire, sometimes ± erose, apex obtuse.

compact or open racemes, 2–5 cm diam.;

bracts spreading, dark purple or yellow, spatulate or broadly oblanceolate, 8–17(–20) × 8–15(–19) mm, margins entire or ± erose, frequently white-translucent or lavender, apex obtuse or truncate, rolled adaxially.

0–1.5(–3.5) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

dark purple, sometimes yellow, 15–20 mm;

calyx cup 1–3 mm deep, lobes sometimes deciduous, 0–5, attenuate to filiform, equal to or shorter than cup;

corolla lobe margins white, lavender, or pinkish, glabrous, sometimes ciliate, abaxial lip as long as or slightly shorter than adaxial lip, lobes 3–5 mm, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded, adaxial lip margins inrolled;

filaments with tuft of hair at base, sparsely villous distally, anthers villous, ± exserted, base mucronulate, sterile appendage (connective) minute or absent;

style equal to or shorter than stamens;

stigma capitate or 2–4-lobed;

carpels 4;

placentae (3 or)4.

(3 or)4-valved.

2–3 mm.

bases 25–55(–90) mm diam., surface coarsely tessellate.