Flora of North America species comparison

(sometimes reddish-tinged, especially proximally) glabrous.

(somewhat sticky) hairy or unevenly glabrate.

1–3 (arching upward).

single (often branching distally).

evenly distributed (proximal often withering before flowering); obscurely petiolate or sessile;

blades oblanceolate to lance-linear (sometimes with 1–2 lateral lobes), 2–4 cm × 3–5 mm, bases subdecurrent, weakly clasping, margins entire or wavy (often revolute).

evenly distributed;

petiolate (petiole bases ± expanded);

blades obovate (lyrate to pinnatifid, lobes linear to ± cruciate), 3–8 × 1.5–3.5 cm, bases contracted or tapered, ultimate margins ± dentate to crenate.

± 8;

corolla laminae 5–10 mm.

± 13;

corolla laminae (deep red to purple) 10–15 mm.

± 13, 5–7(–8) mm.

± 13+, 6–10 mm, tips black.

of 3–5+ (inconspicuous) bractlets.

of 8–14 ± ovate bractlets (lengths to 1/2 phyllaries).

1(–4).

8–20 in corymbiform arrays.

glabrous.

usually hairy.

= 20.