Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

often much branched distally, 15–60 cm;

internodes not at all to slightly 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, forming nearly right angle with stem, straight;

blade narrowly oblong-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 4–11(–20) × 0.4–1.2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base often constricted, apex acuminate, not at all to slightly 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 0.8–1.5 cm, glabrous;

sepals 0.6–0.8 mm, glabrous or with apical tuft of eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, pale blue, ovate, not clawed, 1.3–1.5 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

2–5 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12.