Flora of North America species comparison

seldom clustered, globose, 1–5 cm diam.

usually fewer than 10, 1–6 dm × 4–20 mm.

6–15 mm wide, glaucous adaxially.

20–80 cm;

sterile bracts absent, bracts subtending flowers usually equaling or exceeding pedicel.

usually zygomorphic, sometimes actinomorphic;

tepals withering separately or connivent over capsules after anthesis, long-persistent on fruiting racemes, blue or bluish violet, each 3–9-veined, 12–35 × 1.5–8 mm;

anthers usually yellow, sometimes bluish violet, violet, or brown, 2.5–7 mm; fruiting pedicel mostly incurving-erect, occasionally spreading-erect, 5–70 mm.

slightly zygomorphic or actinomorphic;

tepals withering separately after anthesis, pale to deep blue or bluish violet, each 3-veined, sometimes 5-veined in inner whorls, 15–30 × 3–5 mm;

anthers dark bluish violet to brown, 2.5–4 mm; fruiting pedicel incurving-erect, with capsules appressed to raceme axes, 25–70 mm.

not deciduous, pale green to pale brown, ovoid, 6–19 mm.

8–16 mm.

5–10 per locule.

5–10 per locule. 

= 30.