Flora of North America species comparison

persistently densely woolly.

20–50 cm.

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.

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).

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

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

bisexual and pistillate, odorless, subsessile;

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

stamens 0–6, long-exserted;

filaments glabrous;

ovary 2-locular, stigma penicillate.

pedicellate;

pedicels 1–1.5 cm;

petals pink to rose, 9–13 mm;

stamens 6;

filaments bearded;

ovary 3-locular.

2-locular.

3-locular, 3–5 mm.

1 mm.

1.5–2 mm.