Flora of North America species comparison

(becoming decumbent), simple, to 50 × 4–10 cm, (densely covered proximally with old leaves), axillary branches absent.

3–50;

petiole 0.3–1.5 mm wide, to 1/3 as wide as blade;

blade green, oblanceolate or clavate-oblanceolate, 1–6 cm × 2–8 mm, 1–4 mm thick, base 1–4 mm wide, apex subacute to rounded, surfaces sometimes ± glaucous.

rosettes solitary, not in clumps, 30–80-leaved, 25–60 cm diam.;

blade chalky white, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, widest at base or in distal 1/3, 8–25(–30) × 3–10[–13] cm, 3–10 mm thick, base 3–8 cm wide, apex acuminate to cuspidate, surfaces puberulent, chalky.

cincinni 3–10-flowered, 1–6 cm;

floral shoots 3–12 cm × 0.5–2 mm;

leaves 8–25, ascending, blade triangular-ovate to -lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm × 3–10 mm, 2–4 mm thick, apex rounded to subacute or obtuse.

cyme mostly densely 2–5-branched, obpyramidal to cylindric;

branches twisted at base (flowers on underside), simple or 1 times bifurcate;

cincinni 2–5, (in age straight and spreading to erect), 10–30-flowered, circinate, 10–50 cm;

floral shoots 30–100[–150] × 0.5–2 cm;

leaves 20–70, spreading to deflexed, (becoming red), cordate-ovate to suborbiculate, 20–50 × 15–30 mm, apex acuminate.

pendent or declined, in age sharply bending near middle to bring fruits ± erect, 10–35 mm.

with musky, sweet odor;

petals connate to 1 mm, widely spreading from near middle, white, ± yellowish green at base, red-lineolate on keel, drying purplish, elliptic, 6–10[–12] × 2–3.5[–5] mm, apex acute, corolla 8–20 mm diam.;

pistils separate, ascending;

ovary 3–4.5 mm;

styles 1–1.5 mm.

calyx 5–9 × 5–8 mm;

petals connate 6–10 mm, red, 11–19 × 2–4.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse, tips erect;

pistils connivent, erect.

subglobose to oblong, 0.7–3.5 cm × 5–20 mm.

widespreading, with adaxial margins nearly horizontal.

follicles erect.

= 34.