Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

5–90 cm;

internodes glaucous, glabrous.

spirally arranged;

blade not variegated, suffused with purplish violet, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, (4–)7–15 × 1.5–3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliate or ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous or glabrescent.

spirally arranged, sessile;

blade linear-lanceolate, 5–50 × 0.2–3 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glaucous, glabrous.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal, often axillary;

bracts foliaceous.

subsessile;

pedicels 4–9 mm, densely white-pilose at summit;

sepals distinct, 7–10 mm, pilose basally;

petals ± connate at base, pink, clawed, 1.5–2 cm;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments very sparsely bearded.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 0.8–3 cm, glandular-puberulent, rarely glabrous or glabrescent;

sepals 4–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, usually with apical tuft of eglandular hairs, occasionally with scattered eglandular hairs among glandular, rarely glabrous or glabrescent;

petals distinct, bright blue to rose or magenta, broadly ovate, not clawed, 6–16 mm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

4–7 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2–4 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).