Flora of North America species comparison

blades wiry, lax or stiff, grasslike, flattened, 45–85 cm × 1.5–4.5 mm, not glaucous;

margins serrulate, with close-set, cartilaginous teeth, rarely entire;

inflorescence leaf blades 1.5–6.5 cm.

2.5–6 dm.

racemose, sometimes branched, 6.5–9 dm × 0.7–2.8(–20) cm;

bracts caducous, 1.5–3.5 mm, apex acute, fragile.

tepals 1.3–2.5 mm;

fertile stamens: anthers up to 1 mm;

pistil not ridged;

pedicel recurved in age, not dilated, proximal to joint 1–1.5 mm, distal to joint 1.2–2 mm.

asymmetrical, rounded, inflated, 4–4.5 × (3.5–)4–5.5 mm, tapering at base.

closely invested in capsule, rounded, 3–4.1 × 2.4–3.2 mm.