Flora of North America species comparison

usually not branching, stout, 2–5 dm.

slender, usually branching, 3–6 dm.

basal withering, 0.5–1 dm;

blade linear.

basal withering;

blade linear to lanceolate, 2–4 dm.

subumbellate, 1–3-flowered;

bracts 3–5 cm.

2–6-flowered;

bracts resembling distal cauline leaves.

erect;

perianth open, campanulate;

sepals lanceolate, 4–5 cm, apex acuminate;

petals purple, with median green stripe on abaxial surface, obovate, 4–6 cm, bearded distal to gland, apex acuminate;

glands triangular-sagittate, slightly depressed, densely covered with slender hairs;

filaments 8–9 mm;

anthers lanceolate-linear, ca. 1 cm, 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, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acuminate.

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

flat, inflated.

light beige.

= 14.

= 18.