Flora of North America species comparison

10–25 dm.

34–160 per rosette;

blade stiff, linear-lanceolate, firm, 50–150 cm × 12–48 mm, glaucous, scabrous abaxially;

bases spoon-shaped, 35–110 mm wide;

margins entire, filiferous.

6–24 dm, 15–45 cm diam.

compound paniculate, 7–13 dm × 13–70(–110) cm;

bracts caducous, 3.5–16 cm;

bractlets short-laciniate.

tepals cream to white, 2–4 mm;

fertile stamens: 2–3 mm, anthers to 1 mm;

infertile stamens: filaments 0.9–1.4 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm;

pedicel erect, proximal to joint 0.5–1 mm, distal to joint 0.5–2 mm.

thin-walled, 8–12 mm × 8–12 mm, notched basally and apically.

grayish, ovoid to oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm.