Flora of North America species comparison

usually solitary, ovoid, 1.5–3 cm diam.

3–9, 2–6 dm × 5–25 mm.

20–130 cm;

sterile bracts 0, bracts subtending flowers usually shorter than pedicel.

actinomorphic;

tepals strongly connivent over capsules after anthesis, deciduous as capsules develop, bluish violet to bright blue or creamy white, each 5-, 7-, or 9-veined, 20–40 × 4–10 mm;

anthers yellow, 4–7 mm; fruiting pedicel spreading-erect, 15–50 mm.

often deciduous from pedicel, dull green, ovoid to ellipsoid, 10–25 × 6–12 mm.

6–12 per locule.

= 30.