Flora of North America species comparison

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

inconspicuous or conspicuous (often forming an amorphous mass), slender, branched or unbranched.

numerous, appressed;

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

numerous, appressed;

blade broadly ovate to ovate-triangular, narrower distally, 6–9 mm, margins entire, apex acute or obtuse, 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.

spikelike racemes, purple, lavender, or pallid, sometimes branched, glandular-pubescent, often ± viscid;

flowers numerous;

bracts usually reflexed, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, apex acute, glandular-pubescent.

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

bracteoles 2.

0–10(–12) mm, much shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

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.

calyx purple, rarely pale lavender externally, weakly bilaterally symmetric, 7–11(–13) mm, deeply divided into 5 lobes, lobes lanceolate-linear to linear-subulate, densely glandular-pubescent;

corolla (13–)15–22 mm, tube white, distally often tinged with purple or pink, or with dark purple veins, constricted above ovary, slightly to moderately bent forward, glandular-puberulent to -pubescent;

palatal folds prominent, yellow, pubescent;

lips internally ± purple or lavender, often with darker veins, abaxial lip erect to slightly spreading, 3–4 mm, lobes narrowly oblong-triangular, apex acute, adaxial lip erect to ± spreading, 4–6 mm, lobes triangular, apex acute;

filaments glabrous or pubescent at base, anthers included, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

ovoid to cylindric-ovoid, 10–12 mm.

ovoid, 7–10 mm.

0.4–0.6 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

= 48.