Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

15–115 cm;

internodes glabrous or occasionally pilose, glaucous.

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, forming acute angle with stem, arcuate;

blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 5–45 × 0.4–4.5 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glaucous, usually glabrous, sometimes pilose near sheath.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal and 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 0.7–3 cm, glabrous;

sepals glaucous, 4–15 mm, glabrous or with apical tuft of eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, deep blue to rose, rarely white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 0.8–2 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

4–6 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12, 24.