Flora of North America species comparison

stout, woody;

crown with radiating subterranean branches.

erect to ascending, green, 8–28 cm, glabrous, internodes of flowering stems 0.3–10 times as long as leaves.

variably spaced distally, overlapping (proximal 1/3), connate proximally, with tight, scarious to herbaceous sheath 0.2–1.5 mm;

blade straight to slightly spreading, green, concave, 3-veined, lateral veins less prominent, lanceolate to subulate, 2–13 × 1–5 mm, rigid, margins rounded, scarious in proximal 1/2–2/3, smooth, apex green, blunt to apiculate, navicular, shiny, glabrous;

axillary leaves present.

5–12+-flowered, narrow cymes;

bracts ovate to subulate, ± scarious.

0.2–3 cm, densely stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium disc- to cup-shaped;

sepals obscurely veined, ± broadly ovate (herbaceous portion ± broadly ovate), 2.5–3 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green, rounded, not hooded, stipitate-glandular proximally;

petals spatulate, 2.5–3.2 times as long as sepals, apex broadly rounded, entire.

on stipe ca 0.1 mm, ovoid, 4.7–5 mm, longer than sepals.

brown, suborbiculate, without prolonged beak, not compressed, 0.6–0.65 mm, tuberculate;

tubercles low, rounded.