bilabiate
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Origin of bilabiate
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Involucral leaves like the cauline but more equally lobed; perianth obovate, dorsally compressed, bilabiate, the mouth truncate, entire or toothed, decurved.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Calyx.—Deeply bilabiate; upper lip notched; lower usually entire, or occasionally three-toothed or cleft.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Involucral leaves 2, clasping; perianth ovate-oblong, laterally compressed above a subterete base, the apex at length bilabiate, denticulate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Corolla.—Bright scarlet; an inch or more long; hardly bilabiate.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
They flowered abundantly, but produced only one-spurred bilabiate flowers during the whole summer.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
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