Flora of North America species comparison

0–20 mm.

10–40 mm.

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

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

60–160 × 3–5 mm;

blade linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous or not, abaxial surface villous, adaxial glabrous, rarely sparsely villous.

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

800–1600 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short.

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, (20–)150–250 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs;

bracts ovate or triangular, 1–3.5 mm, length 0.4–0.8 times sepals.

sepals 1.5–2 mm;

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

stamens 4.

sepals 3–4 mm;

corolla bilaterally symmetric, lobes reflexed, adaxials 2.4–3 mm, laterals asymmetric, base cordate;

stamens 4, connective elongated, apex acute.

ovoid, indehiscent or dehiscence not circumscissile.

1 or 2, 4–5 mm.

2, 2.8–3.2 mm.

= 24.

= 20.