Flora of North America species comparison

3–4, 4–35 cm;

blade strongly keeled, ± glaucous.

self-supporting, with occasional bends, 30–80(–90) cm, ± scabrous.

racemose, very dense, 6–15-flowered;

bracts pale purple to green, widely lanceolate, 6–12 mm.

horizontal or erect;

perianth bluish purple, tube unangled, narrowly ovoid, slightly constricted above ovary, 8–10 mm, lobes ascending, 8–10 mm;

perianth appendages 1 per stamen, each coalescent to an inner and outer tepal, leaning away from inner anthers to form corona, erect, purplish, narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm, apex deeply 2-fid into 2 wings;

stamens 3, equal;

anthers 4–5 mm;

ovary sessile, 4–6 mm;

style 5–6 mm;

pedicel 1–6 mm.

= 18, 36.