Selago canescens buds and flowers

The berry-like buds at the Selago canescens raceme tips in picture are deeper mauve than the open flowers that spread the five round-tipped lobes of their two-lipped flowers widely. The flowers are either very short-pedicelled or sessile, therefore the panicles are formed by what should either be called racemes or spikes.

Narrow leafy bracts are visible on the hairy raceme or spike stalks. Small yellow anthers are visible above some flowers, far exserted on hardly visible filaments (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Privett and Lutzeyer, 2010; iNaturalist).