Flora of North America species comparison

1–3, larger bulbs each usually with cluster of 10–30 easily detached bulbels to one side of base, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, globose to ovoid, 1–1.6 × 0.8–1.5 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brownish, membranous, without fibers;

inner coats white to pink;

inner and outer coats frequently without obvious reticulations, these, when present, contorted.

1–5, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 × 1–2 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, reticulate, cells usually coarse-meshed, open, fibrous;

inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure.

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

blade solid, flat or channeled, 10–25 cm × 1–4 mm, margins entire.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2, sheathing;

blade solid, channeled, semiterete, 8–20 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire.

persistent, solitary, erect, solid, ± terete, sometimes ridged, 10–20 cm × 1–2 mm.

persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± 4-angled, 5–20 cm × 1–4 mm.

persistent, erect, compact, 10–20-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2, 5–7-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate.

persistent, erect, compact to loose, 10–20-flowered, hemispheric to globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 3–5-veined, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, apex acute to short-acuminate.

campanulate, 6–10 mm;

tepals erect or ± spreading, white with prominent green or pink midveins, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins entire, apex obtuse to acuminate, becoming involute at tip;

stamens included;

anthers white or yellow;

pollen yellow;

ovary crestless or obscurely crested;

processes 3, low, central, rounded, minute;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, unlobed or slightly lobed;

pedicel 5–12 mm.

campanulate, 8–12 mm;

tepals spreading, pink with deeper pink or reddish midveins, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, not investing capsule, margins entire, apex obtuse to acuminate, midrib scarcely thickened;

stamens included;

anthers yellow or purple;

pollen yellow;

ovary usually conspicuously crested;

processes 6, central, usually connate in pairs across septa, ± erect, flattened, triangular, to 2 mm, margins entire, mostly well developed in fruit;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed;

pedicel 5–20 mm.

coat dull;

cells ± smooth.

coat shining;

cells smooth, without central papillae.

= 28, 42.

= 14.