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....3 Bract and calyx tips red, red-orange, orange, purple, pink, or white; calyx (20-) 25-34 mm long.
......4 Bract and calyx tips red, red-orange or pale orange; corolla tube 20-27 mm long; lower corolla lip 20-25% as long as the beak (upper corolla lip)
......4 Bract and calyx tips purple, pink, light orange, light yellow, or white; corolla tube 16-22 mm long; lower corolla lip 33-50% as long as the beak (upper corolla lip)
..2 Plants annual or biennial, with fibrous roots or a taproot; majority of leaves either unlobed or lobed; corolla 15-31 mm long, the tube 2-18 mm long.
........5 Leaves and bracts deeply (3-) 5-9-lobed; corolla tube 15-18 mm long
..........6 Basal rosettes absent; bract tips pink to red (or white or yellow); [native west of the Mississippi River, and introduced in disturbed habitats eastwards].
............ 7 Distal portions of bracts pure white, sometimes suffused with pale pink; stems strict, rarely branched, 45-74 cm tall; [known only from the mid-Texas Coastal Bend in Nueces, Aransas, and San Patricio counties, restricted to saline to hypersaline flats and shell barrens on saline coastal prairies]
............ 7 Distal portions of bracts usually coral, red-orange, or red, with occasional variants pale yellow, creamy-white, peach, or rose; stems ascending-erect, usually branched from near the base, 25-35 cm tall; [throughout eastern and coastal Texas on non-saline substrates]