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.

blades not wiry, lax, grasslike, flattened, 30–100 cm × (3.5–)4–12 mm, not glaucous;

margins serrulate, with close-set, cartilaginous, corneous teeth;

inflorescence leaf blades 25–60 cm.

6–24 dm, 15–45 cm diam.

3–7 dm.

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

bracts caducous, 3.5–16 cm;

bractlets short-laciniate.

paniculate, 3–10 × 1–3.5 dm;

bracts caducous, 1–15 cm;

bractlets to 2 mm, margins hyaline.

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.

tepals yellow-green, 1.8–2.5 mm, margins hyaline;

fertile stamens: filaments 1.2–1.5 mm, anthers 0.7–1 mm;

pedicel pendulous or recurved, proximal to joint 1–2 mm, distal to joint 2–5(–6) mm.

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

winged, slightly inflated, 6–10 × (6–)7–11 mm, notched basally and apically.

grayish, ovoid to oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm.

loosely invested in capsules, rounded, 3.1–4.2 × 2.4–3.3 mm.