Flora of North America species comparison

short.

cespitose, 15–30(–35) cm.

loosely cespitose, (20–)30–100 cm, base often reddish, often distinctly so at proximal internodes.

to 5 cm or absent.

sheath throat acutely angled, pilose;

basal leaf blade 5–10 cm × 3–8 mm, apex short acuminate, mostly glabrous;

cauline leaves (1–)2–4, 3–5 cm × 2–4 mm.

sheath throat with long, soft hairs;

basal leaf blade 12–17 cm × 5–10 mm, mostly glabrous;

cauline leaves 3–6, dull yellowish or bluish to gray-green to shiny, bright green, 7–9 cm × 3–5 mm, apex acute to acuminate.

anthelate, few flowered;

main branches generally 2–4, spreading less than 90°, lax, usually arching;

proximal inflorescence bract 1 cm or less;

bracts and bracteoles brown;

margins with long curly cilia.

anthelate, few-to-many flowered, 4–20 × 4–12 cm;

major branches spreading less than 90°, lax, often arching;

proximal inflorescence bract inconspicuous to leaflike, to 5(–8) cm;

bract margins entire to lacerate;

bracteoles clear or brown, margins entire to lacerate.

solitary on short pedicels;

tepals dark purplish brown (margins finely lacerate toward apex), 2–2.5 mm, margins finely lacerate toward apex, apex acute, not reflexed;

anthers ± equaling filament length;

stigmas 2 times style length.

(1–)2–4, crowded or open;

tepals pale brown to brown, broadly lanceolate, 1.8–2.5 mm, apex acute, not reflexed;

anthers equaling to shorter than filaments;

stigmas well exceeding style.

dark brown, less than 2.5 mm, slightly longer than tepals;

beak absent.

straw-colored to dark brown to blackish, spheric, less than 2.5 mm, equal to generally longer than tepals;

beak absent.

dark reddish brown, cylindric, 1.2–1.6 mm;

caruncle essentially absent.

brown to brownish red or purple, ellipsoid, 1.1–1.5 mm.

= 24.

= 24.