Flora of North America species comparison

1–3, dark wine red or purple, unbranched, 9–38 cm, with rhizomelike cylindric to globular base 10–25(–40) mm diam.

yellow or wine red;

blade triangular, lanceolate, or ovate, 3–10 mm.

dark purple or red, 10–25 mm diam.;

bracts yellow or yellow-tipped, sometimes translucent, triangular, lanceolate, or ovate, margins erose or ciliolate, apex acute or acuminate, rarely rounded.

calyx purple or red-brown, cleft adaxially, 3–6 mm;

corolla 8–13 mm, glabrous except margins, tube base ± inflated, abaxial lobes 0–1 mm, margins white-ciliate;

stamens included or exserted;

ovary ovoid;

style base persistent on fruit.

subglobular, 5–6 × 5–6 mm, apex beaked.

0.5–0.7 × 0.2–0.3 mm, reticulate, foveate.