Flora of North America species comparison

sparsely pubescent to glabrescent.

20–55 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.

often laxly spreading;

basal leaf sheaths ± glabrous, margins ciliate;

blade linear, 8–35 × 0.4–1.5 cm (distal leaf blades as wide as 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 usually minute, 1–3(–5) mm, scarious.

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 0.5–1.2 cm;

petals pink to rose, 7–12 mm;

stamens 6;

filaments bearded.

2-locular.

3-locular, 2–4 mm.

1 mm.

1.5–2 mm.

= 12.