Flora of North America species comparison

2–10+, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–2 × 0.8–1.5 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brownish, membranous, with or without obscure reticulations, cells isodiametric or transversely elongate, ± contorted, without fibers;

inner coats white, pink, or red, cells obscure, ± quadrate.

2–12+, borne on short rhizome, cylindric, 2–5 × 1–2.5 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, white to light brown, membranous, without reticulation;

inner coats white, cells obscure, quadrate.

usually deciduous with scape, green at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface;

blade solid, flat to ± terete, channeled, 7–25 cm × 1–4 mm, margins entire or minutely denticulate.

persistent, 2–6, sheathing lower 1/4–1/3 of scape;

blade terete, fistulose, 10–40 cm × 10–25 mm.

usually forming abcission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature, frequently breaking at this level after pressing, solitary, erect, solid, slightly flattened, with or without narrow, sometimes crenulate-denticulate wings, 5–12 cm × 1–2 mm.

persistent, solitary, erect, fistulose, inflated in middle, tapering to umbel, (12–)15–70 cm × 8–25 mm.

persistent, erect, compact, 5–25-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 8–11-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex obtuse to acuminate.

persistent, erect, compact, 50–100-flowered, globose to ovoid, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 1–2, 1–3-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acute.

campanulate, 6–9 mm;

tepals erect, bright pink fading to white with dark midribs, rarely white, oblong to lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins obscurely to distinctly serrulate-denticulate, apex obtuse to acuminate;

stamens included;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

ovary crestless;

style included, linear;

stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed;

pedicel 3–10 mm.

narrowly campanulate to urceolate, 6–9 mm;

tepals erect, yellowish white, withering in fruit, margins entire, apex acute, outer lanceolate, inner narrowly ovate, unequal;

stamens long-exserted;

anthers white to yellow;

pollen white;

ovary crestless;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed;

pedicel 10–30 mm.

coat shining;

cells smooth.

coat shining;

cells 4–6-angled, ± rectangular.

= 14.