Flora of North America species comparison

with persistent leaf bases proximally.

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

proximal blades 25–40 cm × 5–12 mm.

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

paniculate, 15–30-flowered, with 1–4 branches, 1.5–3 dm × 3–6 cm, proximal branches 7–8 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, 10–15 mm diam.;

tepals white, ovate, 3–6 × 3–4 mm, somewhat narrowed at base, apex broadly rounded;

gland 1, obcordate, thick;

pedicel ascending at anthesis, 1–1.5 cm, bracts often streaked with purple, ovate, 3–6 mm.

conic, 10–15 mm.

narrowly conic, 7–8 mm.

= 52.

= 32.