Flora of North America species comparison

inconspicuous (often very short and knobby), slender, usually unbranched.

relatively conspicuous (forming a globular mass), slender or stout, branched or unbranched.

thickened, fleshy.

numerous, appressed;

blade broadly ovate, 7–12 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse, surfaces glandular-pubescent.

numerous, large and imbricate proximally, appressed or slightly spreading;

blade lanceolate, 5–10 mm, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.

spikelike racemes, pallid creamy or yellow, purplish tinged, simple, sometimes branched, densely glandular-pubescent;

flowers numerous;

bracts erect to spreading, narrowly lanceolate-ovate, 10–12(–19) mm, apex acute, glandular-pubescent.

dense, pyramidal, thyrsoid panicles, dark purple-brown, imbricately branched, cinereous- to ferruginous-puberulent, hairs eglandular;

flowers numerous;

bracts strongly reflexed, lanceolate-subulate, 3–5 mm, apex acuminate, puberulent.

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

bracteoles 2.

0–5 mm, much shorter than plant axis, sometimes adnate to stem for a portion of their length or flattened;

bracteoles 2.

calyx white or pinkish, or purple tinged, often pallid, radially or weakly bilaterally symmetric, 7–18 mm, deeply divided into 5 lobes, lobes subulate to attenuate, densely glandular-pubescent;

corolla 15–25 mm, tube white to pallid, yellow, or buff, slightly constricted above ovary, straight to curved forward, glandular-pubescent;

palatal folds prominent, yellow, glabrous;

lips externally white to pallid, yellow, or buff, sometimes slightly reddish tinged distally, internally maroon or reddish purple, sometimes with maroon or reddish purple stripes, veins, or blotches, abaxial lip erect to spreading or recurved, 4–8 mm, lobes narrowly ovate to oblong, apex rounded, blunt, retuse, or erosulate, adaxial lip erect to ± spreading, 4–8 mm, lobes oblong or oblong-ovate, apex rounded, truncate, retuse, or erosulate;

filaments sparsely pilose at base, sometimes glandular hairs present near connective, anthers included, moderately woolly or glabrous.

calyx dark purple, weakly bilaterally symmetric, 6–11 mm, divided into 5 unequal lobes, cleft to base on adaxial side, otherwise deeply lobed, lobes attenuate, puberulent;

corolla 10–18 mm, tube dark purple, wine colored, or dark gray, sometimes dark pink, slightly constricted above ovary, ± straight, puberulent;

palatal folds not prominent, pale yellow, glabrous;

lips purple to dark purple or wine colored, sometimes dark pink or with darker pink to purple veins, sometimes internally variegated with white, dark gray externally, abaxial lip spreading, 2–4 mm, lobes narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acute, often bluntly pointed, adaxial lip erect, spreading at tip, 2–4 mm, lobes triangular to oblong-triangular, apex acute, sometimes with a minute tooth;

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

oblong-ovoid, 7–12 mm.

narrowly ovoid, 5–6 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

= 48.