Flora of North America species comparison

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

proximal blades 25–45 cm × 3–20 mm.

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

racemose to paniculate, 15–30-flowered, with 1–4 branches.

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.

nodding;

perianth perigynous, campanulate, 4–8 mm diam.;

tepals greenish, sometimes tinged with purple, ovate, 4–6 × 1.5–3 mm, somewhat narrowed at base, apex narrowly obtuse;

gland 1, obcordate, thick;

pedicel recurved at anthesis, 1.5–2 cm, bracts often tinged with purple or pink, ovate, 5–20 mm.

conic, 10–15 mm.

narrowly conic, 10–20 mm.

= 52.

= 32.