Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, usually unbranched, rarely branched, (hollow, strongly inflated, fusiform, to 3 cm diam. at widest point), 2–10 dm.

rosulate;

petiole 0.5–9 cm;

blade obovate to oblanceolate (in outline), 1–12 cm × 3–45 mm, margins entire, dentate-sinuate, lyrate, runcinate, or pinnatifid.

(distalmost) shortly petiolate;

blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, margins entire.

(densely flowered), with a terminal cluster of sterile flowers.

sepals erect (creamy white, purplish, or greenish), ovate to lanceolate, 7.5–14 × 2.5–4 mm (equal);

petals brown or purple, 10–15 mm, blade 3–5 × 1.2–2.5 mm, not or hardly crisped, claw oblanceolate, 7–10 × 2–2.5 mm;

filaments tetradynamous, median pairs 3–8 mm, lateral pair 2–7 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong, equal, 3–6.5 mm.

ascending, 1–5 mm, glabrous or pubescent, (trichomes flattened).

erect to ascending, terete or slightly latiseptate, 4.5–14 cm × 2–2.5 mm;

valves each with obscure midvein;

ovules 98–126 per ovary;

style obsolete or, rarely, to 0.6 mm;

stigma strongly 2-lobed (lobes to 1 mm, connivent, opposite valves).

1.5–4 × 1.5–2 mm.

= 28.