Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of leaf tufts, elevated above ground surface on woody base, (1.5–)3–7.5 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes short-stalked, usually 4–7-rayed, 0.1–0.3 mm, similarly pubescent distally.

blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1–3 mm wide, margins entire, not ciliate, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 4–9-rayed, 0.1–0.3 mm.

10–30, often concealing stem proximally;

blade auricles absent or, rarely, to 0.5 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves pubescent.

8–25-flowered, usually unbranched.

descending at anthesis;

sepals pubescent;

petals usually purple, rarely white, 9–16 × 2–4(–5) mm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous (trichomes scattered abaxially);

pollen ellipsoid.

reflexed, abruptly recurved at base, otherwise straight, 8–16 mm, pubescent, trichomes appressed, branched.

strongly reflexed, often appressed to rachis, sometimes somewhat secund, straight, edges parallel, 3.3–8 cm × 2.5–4 mm;

valves pubescent throughout;

ovules 68–106 per ovary;

style 0.1–0.3 mm.

biseriate, 1.7–2.8 × 1.5–2.2 mm;

wing continuous, 0.25–0.65 mm wide.