Flora of North America species comparison

2-ranked, gradually reduced toward ends of flowering stems;

blade ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 1–3.5 × 0.6–1 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrid, apex acute, glabrous.

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.

sessile in axils of distal leaves of flowering stems, composed of pairs of sessile cymes (sometimes reduced to single cymes).

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

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

bisexual and pistillate, odorless, subsessile;

petals inconspicuous, white, lanceolate, 3–6 mm;

stamens 0–6, long-exserted;

filaments glabrous;

ovary 2-locular, stigma penicillate.

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.

2-locular.

3-locular.

1 mm.

0.6–0.7 mm.

= 14 (as floridana).