Flora of North America species comparison

inconspicuous (rarely forming a bulbous mass), slender or stout, unbranched, sometimes branched (subsp. grandis).

numerous, appressed;

blade broadly ovate, triangular, deltate, lanceolate, or oblong, 4–12 mm, margins entire or erosulate, apex obtuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous.

corymbs (sometimes subcapitate), sometimes racemes or subcorymbose racemes, dark purple, reddish purple, pinkish, or pallid cream to nearly white, simple, sometimes inconspicuously branched, densely glandular-puberulent;

flowers numerous (rarely 10 or fewer in depauperate plants);

bracts appressed to spreading, ± lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, apex acute, glandular-pubescent.

corymbs, sometimes subcorymbose racemes, 3–6 cm;

bracts pallid to pinkish tinged, drying brown.

0–20(–25) mm, shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

5–20 mm.

calyx pallid to dark purple, pink, yellow, or white, ± weakly bilaterally symmetric, 8–20(–27) mm, deeply divided into 5 (sometimes reflexed or contorted) lobes, lobes subulate to linear-subulate, gradually attenuate, glandular-pubescent;

corolla 22–50(–55) mm, tube white or cream to pinkish or purplish tinged or pink to purple, sometimes with darker veins, constricted above ovary, curved forward, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent;

palatal folds prominent, yellow, glabrous (lacking blisterlike swellings), sometimes pubescent;

lips white or cream to pinkish or purplish tinged (then sometimes appearing reddish brown in herbarium specimens) or pink to purple, sometimes with darker veins or dark purple distally, abaxial lip widely spreading, 8–15 mm, lobes ± lanceolate to ± oblong, lanceolate-subulate, narrowly triangular, or lanceolate-ovate, apex ± acute to rounded or obtuse, sometimes retuse or emarginate, adaxial lip ± spreading, 10–15(–18) mm, lobes broadly deltate to ovate or oblong, apex bluntly pointed to rounded, obtuse, acute, shallowly retuse, erosulate, emarginate, shallowly notched, or erose;

filaments glabrous, anthers included, densely villous on sutures, rarely glabrous.

pallid to pinkish or pale lavender, often with lavender veins, (25–)28–33 mm;

tube slender, abruptly widening toward throat;

throat 8–10 mm wide at base of lobes;

lips 10–12 mm, abaxial lobes lanceolate to lanceolate-subulate, 2–3 mm wide, apex acute, adaxial lobes oblong-ovate, apex narrowly rounded, shallowly retuse, or erosulate.

11–15 mm, lobes pallid, sometimes purplish, linear-subulate, (7–)9–13(–16) mm.

ovoid to cylindric-ovoid, 10–12 mm.

0.4–0.6 mm.

= 48.