Flora of North America species comparison

3–4, 30–85 cm;

blade unkeeled, glaucous.

self-supporting, with occasional bends, 20 (rarely –90) cm, scabrous.

umbellate, dense, 6–15-flowered;

bracts streaked purple, ovate, 7–12 mm, apex acuminate.

horizontal or erect;

perianth pink to bluish purple, tube unangled, cylindrical, strongly constricted above ovary, 8–10 mm, lobes widely spreading, 8–10 mm;

perianth appendages each coalescent to inner and outer tepal, arching slightly inward (but outward distally) toward anthers, forming corona, erect, white or pale purple, 5–6 mm, margins entire or denticulate, strongly involute, apex truncate or rounded;

stamens 3, equal;

anthers 4–5 mm;

ovary sessile, globose, 4–6 mm;

style 5–8 mm;

pedicel 3–15 mm, not hidden by bracts.

= 18, 36, 45, 54.