Flora of North America species comparison

without persistent leaf bases.

proximal blades 10–30 cm × 3–15 mm.

proximal blades 18–60 cm × 3–25 mm.

loosely racemose to paniculate, 10–50-flowered, with 1–4 branches, 0.9–2.5 dm × 3–6 cm.

paniculate, 10–80-flowered, with 2–10 branches, 3–40 × 2–8 cm.

perianth perigynous, rotate to rotate-campanulate, 15–20 mm diam.;

tepals persistent in fruit, cream colored to greenish, ovate, 7–12 × 4–5 mm, somewhat narrowed at base;

gland 1, obcordate;

pedicel erect at anthesis, 1–2.3 cm, bracts often tinged with purple or pink, ovate, 5–20 mm.

perianth hypogynous, 12–20 mm diam.;

tepals persistent in fruit, cream colored, elliptic to ovate, 5–10 × 2–4 mm, outer not clawed, often persistently reflexed below mature capsule;

gland 1, obovate, distal margins evident, dentate;

filaments straight, shorter than tepals, thickened proximally;

pedicel ascending in flower, perpendicular to stem in fruit, 10–35 mm, bracts green and foliaceous to white and membranous, 3–25 mm.

narrowly conic, 10–20 mm.

9–20 × 4–9 mm.

= 32.

= 22.