Flora of North America species comparison

30–200 cm, sparsely strigillose, usually glabrous proximally.

petioles 2–7 mm;

cauline blades oblong- to elliptic-lanceolate, (6–)9–23 × (0.7–)1.5–3.4 cm, base subcuneate to attenuate, margins ± denticulate, surface strigillose on adaxial side and on abaxial midrib, or, rarely, glabrous.

strigillose;

bracts 7–25 mm.

sepals 9–19 × 1.5–3 mm, acuminate;

petals obovate to suborbicular, 14–25 × 7–14 mm, entire or scarcely emarginate;

filaments 8–17 mm;

anthers 2.5–3 mm;

pollen mixed 3- and 4-porate (rarely 5-porate), 70–95 µm diam.;

ovaries 8–25 mm, style 9–18 mm.

5–9.5 cm;

pedicels 1–3 cm.

1–1.3 × 0.3–0.4 mm.

= 72, 108.