Flora of North America species comparison

usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm.

slender, usually branching, 3–6 dm.

basal withering, 1–2 dm;

blade linear.

basal withering;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–4 dm.

1–4-flowered;

bracts 2–4 cm.

2–6-flowered;

bracts resembling distal cauline leaves.

erect;

perianth open, campanulate;

sepals with dark red or purple blotch near base, lanceolate, 1–4 cm, usually glabrous, apex acuminate;

petals white tinged with lilac, with longitudinal median green stripe on abaxial surface and dark red or purple crescent distal to gland, narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm, ± glabrous;

glands surrounded by yellow border, round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs;

filaments 5–6 mm;

anthers yellow, blue, or maroon, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex obtuse.

erect;

perianth open, broadly campanulate;

sepals lanceolate, 3–5 cm, glabrous or with a few hairs at base, apex long-tapering;

petals pale pink to rose, drying purplish, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–4 cm, glabrous distally or nearly so, rarely fringed, with conspicuous, long, yellow hairs in broad median band, margins dentate;

glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, bordered by ring of dense, obscuring, orange hairs;

filaments 9–11 mm, ± equaling anthers;

anthers lanceolate-linear, apex acute to somewhat short-tipped.

erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate.

erect, linear, angled, 4–8 cm, apex acute.

yellow, flat.

light beige.

= 14.

= 18.