Flora of North America species comparison

erect;

petiole 3–15 cm;

blade absent or narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 3–9 × 0.5–3 cm, margins entire.

racemes, rarely panicles;

scapes erect or ascending;

bracts broadly ovate-lanceolate, thin, scarious.

12–22 mm wide;

sepals persistent, green, oblong or ovate, somewhat hooded, 4–5 mm;

petals white with yellow patch near base, rarely pink, broadly cuneate, rhombic, 6–10 mm, erose distally;

stamens 2–3 mm, 2 in front of each petal;

pistils 6–10 in single ring on receptacle;

ovules 1;

styles erect in anthesis, soon spreading radially, elongate, stout.

horned by enlargement of style, ribbed on angles, with prominent angular shoulder and depressed flat faces, 0.5 × 3–5.5 mm;

beak 3–6 mm.