Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect.

erect to occasionally ascending.

erect to arching back at tip, 2–8 dm;

bulblets absent.

erect, not arching except at tip, 1–6 dm;

bulblets absent.

1/4–1/3 length of leaf;

scales abruptly diminishing in size distally and falling off early but retaining conspicuous tuft of brown scales at base.

1/10–1/6 of blade, densely scaly;

scales light brown, gradually diminishing in size distally.

linear-lanceolate to linear, 1-pinnate, base not or slightly narrowed.

linear, often widest above middle, 1-pinnate, base narrowed.

oblong, slenderly lanceolate, or falcate, usually overlapping, in 1 plane or twisted out of plane of blade, 2–4 cm;

base oblique, auricles well developed;

margins serrulate-spiny with teeth ascending;

apex cuspidate or apiculate with subapical teeth smaller than apical tooth;

microscales lanceolate to linear with straight or sharply angular projections, sparse, on abaxial surface only.

oblong to lanceolate to falcate, proximal pinnae ± deltate, rarely overlapping, in 1 plane, 0.5–3 cm, base truncate to oblique, acroscopic auricle well developed;

margins serrulate-spiny with teeth spreading;

apex acute, subapical tooth hardly smaller than apical tooth;

microscales dense, on abaxial surface only.

entire to sharply dentate.

entire or minutely dentate-erose.

dark brown.

dark brown.

= 82.