Flora of North America species comparison

usually relatively conspicuous (often forming an irregular mass), slender, branched.

numerous, appressed;

blade ± lanceolate to broadly ovate, 6–12 mm, margins entire, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces sometimes glandular-pubescent.

spikelike racemes, purple, usually branched, densely glandular-pubescent, sometimes appearing canescent;

flowers numerous;

bracts erect to reflexed, lanceolate to linear, 5–12 mm, apex acuminate, obtuse, or acute, glandular-pubescent.

0–30 mm, much shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

calyx dark purple or lavender, weakly bilaterally symmetric, 8–12 mm, deeply divided into 5 lobes, lobes lanceolate-acute to -attenuate, densely glandular-pubescent;

corolla 15–32 mm, tube purple or lavender, rarely white, tinged with purple, constricted above ovary, bent forward, ± glandular-pubescent;

palatal folds prominent, yellow, densely pubescent;

lips dark purple to lavender, with darker purple veins, abaxial lip spreading or slightly reflexed, 3–9 mm, lobes oblong-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, apex acute, often with apiculate tooth, adaxial lip erect, reflexed, or revolute, 6–10 mm, lobes ± triangular, rarely truncate, apex acute, often with apiculate teeth;

filaments glabrous, anthers included, glabrous, sparsely villous, pubescent, or tomentulose along sutures, usually also with inconspicuous stalked glands (these minute, appearing peglike under magnification).

ovoid, 6–12 mm.

0.2–0.5 mm.