Flora of North America species comparison

0–40 mm, usually branched.

0–5(–7) mm.

10–220 × (1–)10–15 mm;

blade linear to lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins not conspicuous, surfaces glabrous, sometimes hairy.

10–70 × (0.8–)1–2 mm;

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

40–120 mm, glabrous or hirsute.

10–80 mm, glabrous or hairy.

greenish or brownish, (15–)50–200(–290) mm, densely or loosely flowered;

bracts broadly ovate, 1.5–4(–6) mm, length 0.8–1.2 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 1.5–3.5 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, tube hairy, lobes reflexed, 1–1.5 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.

1–3, 1.5–3 mm.

(3 or)4–9(–12), 1.5–2.5 mm.

= 24.

= 12, 20, 36.