Flora of North America species comparison

persistently densely woolly.

20–50 cm.

strongly ascending;

basal leaf sheaths glabrous to puberulent;

blade linear, (2–)10–25 × 0.1–0.4 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened).

2-ranked, gradually reduced toward end of flowering shoot;

blade lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic to ovate, 1–3 × 0.5–1.4 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrous, glabrous.

bracts not distinct from bracteoles, usually minute, 1–3(–7) mm, scarious (rarely somewhat herbaceous).

terminal and axillary from distal leaves, pedunculate, composed of pairs of sessile cymes;

bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–6 mm.

pedicellate;

pedicels 1–1.5 cm;

petals pink to rose, 9–13 mm;

stamens 6;

filaments bearded;

ovary 3-locular.

odorless, 4–5 mm wide, pedicillate;

sepals distinct, maroon, 2–3 mm;

petals white, ovate, 2.5 mm;

stamens 6, nearly equal or antipetalous stamens slightly longer than antsepalous;

filaments glabrous;

ovary 3-locular.

3-locular, 3–5 mm.

3-locular.

1.5–2 mm.

0.6–0.7 mm.

= 14 (as floridana).