Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

not flexuous, 10–50 cm;

internodes glabrous to pilose.

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 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, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

all or mostly terminal;

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 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.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

6–8 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

3–4 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12, 24.