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Taprooted, hirsutulous annual or biennial; lvs oblanceolate to obovate, 5–10(–15) cm, obtuse, entire or inconspicuously toothed; scape to 2 dm; spikes 3–10(–20) cm × 6–8 mm; bracts lanceolate, mostly shorter than the cal, hirsutulous, a scarious margin scarcely developed; sep oblong-obovate, rounded above, the keel hirsutulous, the scarious margin broad and glabrous; cor-lobes 1–3 mm, erect and connivent even in fr; seeds 2, 1.3–2 mm, less than half as wide, convex on the back, strongly concave on the inner face, the hilum nearly as long as the seed; 2n=24. Occasional plants have chasmogamous fls with spreading cor-lobes. A spring ephemeral of dry or sandy soil, often weedy; Mass. and N.Y. to Wis., Io., and S.D., s. to Fla. and Tex., and intr. westward.
Perennial herb, 0.25-0.55 m high. Leaves in a basal rosette, obovate or narrowly spathulate, 220 x 40 mm, densely villous; petioles flattened, up to 40 mm long. Inflorescences in spikes up to 200 mm long; scapes few per rosette, up to 170-360 mm long; bracts glabrous, apex acute. Calyx lobes elliptical, ± 2 x 1 mm, subacute. Corolla lobes broadly deltoid, ± 2.5 x 1.3 mm, acute. Flowering time all year. Fruit an ellipsoid capsule, ± 3.5 x 2 mm. Seeds narrowly tetrahedral, 2-4 per capsule, greenish brown, 1.9 x 1 mm, hilum scar at apex small.
Perennial herb; scape up to 0.55 m high. Leaves in a basal rosette, petiolate; blade obovate or narrowly spathulate, 33-220 x 9-40 mm, densely woolly. Flowers: spike > 1/2 as long as peduncle; corolla white or blue; Sep.-Apr.
Dioecious, softly hairy or woolly, tufted perennial to 55 cm. Leaves oblanceolate, ribbed. Flowers in elongate spikes on softly hairy peduncles, female flowers with petals connivent to tips, brownish.
Rosulate annual herb. Leaves petiolate, obovate or narrowly spathulate, densely woolly. Spike more than half as long as peduncle. Flowers white and brown.
