Flora of North America species comparison

without persistent leaf bases.

blade sometimes becoming reddish brown with age, 19–42 cm × 5–20 mm, glaucous abaxially.

proximal blades 10–30 cm × 3–15 mm.

loosely paniculate, 30–75-flowered, with 2–6 ascending branches, pyramidal, 10–60 × 5–12 cm.

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

perianth hypogynous, 20–30 mm diam.;

tepals persistent in fruit, white to cream colored, ovate to lanceolate, 9–15 × 3–5 mm, somewhat contracted at base;

glands 2, elliptic, margins thickened;

pedicel bracts ovate, 5–15 mm.

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.

conic, 10–15 mm.

narrowly conic, 10–20 mm.

= 52.

= 32.