Flora of North America species comparison

not disarticulating at each node.

basal;

petiole 0.1–0.5 cm;

blade narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 0.5–2 × 0.8–2(–2.2) cm, hirsute.

blades lanceolate to ovate or spatulate.

cymose, dichotomously branched throughout, white to greenish or reddish;

bracts usually 2, similar to leaves at proximal nodes only reduced, typically with whorl of 3–5 ca. midstem, short-petiolate, becoming linear and aciculate at distal nodes, acerose, 0.5–2(–3) cm × 10–30(–40) mm, awns absent.

bracts with or without awns.

congested in small bracteated terminal clusters of 2–4 at node of dichotomies, tannish, cylindric, slightly ventricose basally, 3–4 mm, with conspicuous, white, broad, membranous margins typically extending up tooth to awn, finely corrugated, hispid at least along ridges, otherwise sparsely pubescent;

teeth spreading, equal, 1–1.5 mm, awns straight, 0.5–1 mm.

cylindric, campanulate, or urceolate, occasionally ventricose basally, 3-angled, 6-ribbed, 6-toothed, with or without membranous or scarious margins continuous across sinuses;

awns unequal, typically with anterior one longest.

exserted;

perianth cream to creamy white or rose, cylindric, 4–4.5(–5) mm, slightly pubescent abaxially;

tepals connate 2/3 their length, monomorphic, obovate, obcordate to 2-lobed apically, sometimes slightly irregular but not distinctly erose;

stamens 9, slightly exserted;

filaments distinct, 4–5 mm, glabrous;

anthers pink to red, oblong, 0.5–0.6 mm.

1;

perianth white, yellow, rose, red, maroon, dark purple, or lavender, thinly pubescent;

stamens 3–9;

filaments adnate at base of floral tube.

light brown, globose-lenticular, 3.5–4.5 mm.

light brown to dark brown, lenticular or globose-lenticular.

= 38, 40, 44.