Flora of North America species comparison

not flexuous, 10–50 cm;

internodes glabrous to pilose.

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, sessile;

blade silvery or gray-green, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 8–28 × 1–6 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base ± rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, ± glaucous, usually glabrous.

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

bracts mostly foliaceous, occasionally reduced.

all or mostly terminal;

bracts foliaceous.

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.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 2–3.2 cm, glandular-pilosulose;

sepals 6–12 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pilosulose;

petals distinct, white or pale pink to pale lavender, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.6 cm;

stamens free.

6–8 mm.

3–4 mm.

= 12, 24.