Flora of North America species comparison

0.6–3 × 0.5–1.2 cm;

bulbs 1–1.6 cm.

2/3–4/5 floriferous, 0.5–1.5 m. Leaf blades broadly oblanceolate to obovate, slightly plicate, 17–35 × 4.5–12.5 cm, apex obtuse to submucronate.

2.5–10 dm;

terminal raceme 1–4.4 dm;

secondary racemes spreading to occasionally perpendicular, 0.6–2.2(–2.4) dm;

tertiary racemes rare, sometimes replacing first flowers on lower secondaries;

bracts subulate, dark green, 2–4 mm, densely floccose abaxially, basally, and marginally.

elliptic-oblong, 10–18 × 7–10 mm, glabrous.

7.5–10 × 3.5–4.5 mm (including wings).

greenish yellow to olive green, aging to light green, narrowly rhombic to oblanceolate, 5–9 × 1.3–3 mm, base gradually attenuate to a narrow stalk, not clawed, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate;

glands obscure, whitened in age, not nectariferous;

stamens 3–4.5 mm;

filaments inserted on tepal bases, 0.4 mm from ovary base, slightly dilated basally, barely 1/3 as wide as tepals at insertion point;

anthers 0.5 mm;

ovary ovoid, glabrous;

styles 1–1.5 mm;

pedicel spreading to nearly perpendicular, 5.5–11 mm.

= 16.