Flora of North America species comparison

0–20 mm.

0–30 mm.

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

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

50–220 × 9–60 mm;

blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, margins with inconspicuous teeth, veins conspicuous, surfaces hairy, adaxial surface hairs floccose, slender, 4–6 × 0.01–0.03 mm.

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

55–220 mm, lanate, hairs variously directed, long.

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

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

greenish or brownish, 200–500 mm, densely flowered, flowers less crowded proximally;

bracts narrowly triangular or triangular, 2–2.8 mm, lengths 0.9–1 times sepals.

sepals 1.5–2 mm;

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

stamens 4.

sepals 1.9–2.7 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 2–2.9 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.

ovoid, indehiscent or dehiscence not circumscissile.

1 or 2, 4–5 mm.

3, 1.8–2.4 mm.

= 24.