Flora of North America species comparison

0–20 mm.

0–5(–7) mm.

(80–)100–400(–550) × (5–)10–35(–40) mm;

blade oblanceolate or almost linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous, 4 or 5, surfaces glabrous.

10–70 × (0.8–)1–2 mm;

blade linear to almost filiform, margins entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces glabrous or hairy.

300–400 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, becoming densely so distally.

10–80 mm, glabrous or hairy.

greenish or brownish, 350–450 mm, loosely flowered;

bracts ovate to deltate, 3–4 mm, length 1.5–2.5 times sepals.

greenish, brownish, or gray, (30–)50–150 mm, densely or loosely flowered;

bracts ovate, 2–2.5 mm, length 0.8–1.2 times sepals.

sepals 1.5–2 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1.5–2 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.

sepals 2–2.5 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading or reflexed, not forming a beak, 0.5–1 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 2.

ovoid, indehiscent or dehiscence not circumscissile.

1 or 2, 4–5 mm.

(3 or)4–9(–12), 1.5–2.5 mm.

= 24.

= 12, 20, 36.