Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

absent or 2–7 cm in flower, to 20 cm in fruit, shaggy pilose to villous.

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.

blade green, linear-lanceolate, 4–30 × 0.9–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins frequently clear or edged with rose, laxly and irregularly pilose or villous.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal, solitary;

bracts foliaceous, well developed, not saccate, sparsely to densely pilose.

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 4–6 cm, laxly pilose;

sepals usually purple or rose-colored (rarely pale green), not inflated, 1.2–1.6 cm, uniformly eglandular-pilose;

petals distinct, deep rose or purple, or frequently blue, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.8–2.2 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

5–7 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 24.