Flora of North America species comparison

25–90 cm.

2–20 cm.

blades to 30 cm × 6 mm.

blades to 7.5 cm × 3.5 mm.

open, 20–100-flowered, 3–25 cm;

bracts navicular, margins entire;

bracteoles forming epicalyx, 3-lobed, lobes acute.

open to dense, sometimes spikelike, 5–30-flowered, 0.5–2.5 cm;

proximal bracts conspicuous, ovate, margins entire, distal bracts reduced or absent;

bracteoles forming epicalyx, deeply 3-lobed, lobes often appearing distinct, ovate, sometimes weakly 3-fid with 2 small lateral lobes.

tepals white, 3–4.5 mm, inner tepals longer, wider than outer;

stamens 3–4 mm;

ovary narrowly ovoid;

styles 0.4–0.8 mm;

pedicel 1.5–4 mm.

tepals greenish, tinged pinkish cream to deep crimson, 2–2.5 mm, inner tepals slightly longer than outer;

stamens ± equaling or slightly longer than tepals;

filaments not strongly flattened or dilated basally;

ovary ellipsoid;

styles 0.3–0.8 mm;

pedicel 0–3 mm, often becoming arcuate in fruit.

broadly ellipsoid, 3–4 mm.

broadly obovoid to globose, 2–2.3 mm.

1–1.3 mm.

ca. 1 mm.

= 30.