Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, not fleshy, glabrous or hairy.

erect to ascending, pubescent and pilose.

cauline, alternate;

petiole absent;

blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire or 3–7-lobed.

15–50 mm;

blade: proximal margins entire, distal entire or 3-lobed.

terminal, spikes or racemes;

bracts present.

spikes, (2–)5–20 cm;

bracts 10–20 mm, margins 3-lobed in distal 1/2, proximal resembling distal leaves, midlobe green distally, triangular, 2–3 mm wide, apex acuminate, not cuspidate, lateral lobes narrowly lanceolate.

absent or present;

bracteoles absent.

0 mm.

sepals 4, calyx symmetric, tubular, lobes triangular;

petals 5, corolla purple-pink, yellow, or white, strongly bilabiate, club-shaped, often gibbous at base of abaxial lip, abaxial lobes 0 or 3, adaxial 2, adaxial lip galeate, rounded at apex, sometimes obscurely so, opening downward;

stamens 4, didynamous, filaments glabrous or hairy;

staminode 0;

ovary 2-locular, placentation axile;

stigma linear, not expanded at apex.

calyx 5–8 mm;

corolla 10–15 mm, longer than bracts, abaxial lip inflated, lobes 3, rounded, adaxial lip golden yellow, 2–4 mm, equal to abaxial, glandular-puberulent, tip minutely hooked, not bearded.

dehiscence loculicidal.

5–7 mm, apex retuse.

5–35, light to dark brown or yellow, ovoid to reniform or oblong, wings absent.

20–35, yellow or dark brown, ovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm, reticulate, longitudinally ridged.

= 7.

= 28.