Flora of North America species comparison

clustered, fibrous-thickened.

sparsely branched, 30–50 cm, tufted, glabrous.

2-ranked;

blade lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–5 × 1–2 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous.

spirally arranged, distant;

blade not variegated, narrowly lanceolate, 7.5–16 × 1–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins smooth or ciliate-scabrous, apex acuminate, glabrous to sparsely pubescent.

terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, sometimes axillary from distalmost leaf axil, 1–2 cyme pairs per stem;

bracts mostly foliaceous, occasionally reduced.

terminal;

bracts very unlike proximal stem leaves, connate, ovate-lanceolate, 2.4–4.5 cm, base cordate, somewhat dilated.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 1–1.5 cm, glandular-pilose;

sepals 5–7 mm, midrib pilose with eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, white, not clawed, 8–9 mm;

stamens free;

filaments white, densely bearded with white hairs.

subsessile;

pedicels densely covered with white, long, eglandular hairs or occasionally only with colorless, short, glandular hairs;

sepals distinct, usually glandular-pubescent as well as villous;

petals purplish red, clawed, claws connate basally forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments glabrous.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

1.5 mm.