Flora of North America species comparison

slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm.

usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm.

basal withering, 2–4 dm;

blade linear to lanceolate.

basal withering, 1–2 dm;

blade linear.

2–6-flowered;

bracts resembling distal cauline leaves.

1–4-flowered;

bracts 2–4 cm.

erect;

perianth open, broadly campanulate;

sepals ovate to lanceolate, attenuate, 2–3 cm;

petals orange-yellow, flecked, broadly cuneate or obovate, ca. 2–3 cm, adaxially bearded with long yellow hairs, margins often red-brown, dentate or fringed;

glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, surrounded by ring of long, dense, obscuring yellow hairs;

filaments 8–12 mm;

anthers lanceolate-oblong, apex acute.

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, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute.

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

light beige.

yellow, flat.

= 18.

= 14.