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 wiry, lax, concavo-convex, 80–130 cm  5–12 mm, not glaucous;

margins serrulate, with close-set, cartilaginous teeth;

apex lacerate;

inflorescence leaf blades curling distally, 10–50 cm.

6–24 dm, 15–45 cm diam.

3–15 dm, 1.2–2.5 cm diam.

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

bracts caducous, 3.5–16 cm;

bractlets short-laciniate.

paniculate, 4–12 dm × 10–30 cm, surpassing leaves;

bracts caducous, rarely persistent;

bractlets 2–5 mm, slightly erose.

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 white, 1.5–3.3 mm;

fertile stamens: filaments 1.6–1.9 mm, anthers 1.2–1.4 mm;

infertile stamens: filaments 0.9–1.2 mm, anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; fruiting pedicel erect, proximal to joint 1–2 mm, distal to joint 3–6 mm.

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

hyaline, thin-walled, inflated, 4.2–6 × 5.4–6.4 mm, indistinctly notched at apex.

grayish, ovoid to oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm.

loosely invested in capsules, compressed, 2.2–3.4 × 1.5–3 mm.

= 38.