Flora of North America species comparison

inconspicuous, slender or stout, unbranched or few-branched.

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

relatively few, loosely imbricate or more remote, loosely ascending to spreading;

blade oblong-lanceolate to awl-shaped, 2–10 mm, margins entire, often inrolled, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous.

numerous, appressed;

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

of solitary flowers or fascicles of 2(–4) at stem or branch tips, white to cream, sometimes purple tinged, simple, glabrous;

bracts loosely ascending and erect, oblanceolate to broadly ovate, obovate, rhombic, or awl-shaped, 5–12 mm, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous, rarely glandular-pubescent distally.

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.

(8–)20–110(–170) mm, much longer than plant axis;

bracteoles 0.

0–30 mm, much shorter than plant axis;

bracteoles 2.

calyx white to straw colored or light yellow, or pale to dark, dull purple, sometimes brownish, ± radially symmetric, 4–12(–15) mm, divided into 5 subequal lobes, lobes slightly shorter than to 2 times as long as tube, ± triangular or subulate-triangular, sparsely to moderately glandular-pubescent;

corolla (11–)15–30(–35) mm, tube white to purple, blue, or yellow, sometimes lighter proximally or with light or darker purple or blue veins, slightly to moderately constricted above ovary, ± bent forward, glandular-pubescent;

palatal folds ± prominent, bright yellow, glandular- and/or eglandular-pubescent, sometimes glabrescent;

lips white, yellow, purple, or blue, sometimes with light or darker purple or blue veins, abaxial lip slightly to moderately spreading, sometimes ± recurved distally, (1–)2–6(–9) mm, lobes oblong-obovate to nearly round, apex rounded to bluntly pointed or shallowly emarginate (sometimes with 2 notches), adaxial lip slightly to moderately spreading, sometimes recurved, 2–6(–9) mm, lobes broadly oblong-ovate to oblong-semiorbiculate, apex rounded, rarely bluntly pointed or shallowly emarginate;

filaments glabrous, anthers included, glabrous or villous-tomentose.

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 to oblong-ovoid, 4–8(–11) mm.

ovoid, 6–12 mm.

0.1–0.4 mm.

0.2–0.5 mm.