Flora of North America species comparison

3–4, 4–35 cm;

blade strongly keeled, ± glaucous.

3–5, 30–50 cm;

blade keeled, glaucous.

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

30–90 cm, smooth.

racemose, very dense, 6–15-flowered;

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

umbellate, open, 6–20-flowered;

bracts reddish, lanceolate, 15–25 mm, apex obtuse.

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.

nodding at anthesis, erect in fruit;

perianth tube red, cylindrical, not constricted above ovary, 20–27 mm, with 6 sac-like angles on proximal 1/3, lobes recurved, erect in fruit, yellow-green, 7–9 mm;

perianth appendages each coalescent with an inner and outer tepal, forming conspicuous corona, erect, whitish, 3–4 mm, margins entire, involute, apex rounded;

stamens 3, equal;

anthers 6–8 mm;

ovary stipitate, narrowly ovoid, 7–12 mm, stipe 3–6 mm;

style 7–20 mm;

pedicel 10–50 mm.

= 18, 36.

= 28, 48.