Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–1.5 × 0.8–1.4 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brownish, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers;

inner coats white, cells obscure, quadrate.

3–4, not clustered on stout, primary rhizomes, ovoid, asymmetric, 2.5–3 × 2–5 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, light yellow to light brown, thin, papery, chartaceous, cells narrow, vertically elongate, without fibers;

inner coats white, cells narrow, vertically elongate.

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

blade solid, flat, broadly channeled, falcate, 10–35 cm × 1–3(–5) mm, margins entire.

usually persistent, 3–6, scarcely ensheathing scape even basally, sheaths not extending much above soil surface;

blade solid, flat, broadly channeled, 10–60 cm × 10–25 mm, margins entire.

persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, enlarged apically but distinctly constricted just proximal to inflorescence, 15–20 cm × 1.5–4 mm.

usually persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, fistulose, 60–100 cm × 5–10 mm.

persistent, erect, compact, 15–30-flowered, hemispheric to globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 3, 5–7-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acute.

persistent, erect, compact, 75–150-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2–4, 11+-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate.

± stellate, 7–8 mm;

tepals spreading, light pink to rose with prominent green or reddish midribs, narrowly lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins entire, apex acuminate;

stamens exserted;

anthers blue-gray;

pollen light blue to gray;

ovary crested;

processes 6, 2 per lobe, low, rounded, margins entire;

style exserted, linear;

stigma capitate, unlobed;

pedicel 10–20 mm.

stellate to subcampanulate, 6–9 mm;

tepals ± spreading, white with green midvein, narrowly oblong, ± equal, becoming ± rigid and reflexed in fruiting, margins entire, apex obtuse;

stamens included;

anthers yellow or purple, aborting without producing pollen;

ovary crestless;

style linear, ± equaling tepals;

stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, obscurely 3-lobed;

pedicel 25–40 mm.

coat shining;

cells smooth.

coat not known.

= 14.