Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 30–50 mm.

ovoid, 10–20 mm;

stolons 1–3, common, mostly on 1-leaved, nonflowering plants.

7–20 cm;

blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy.

5–18 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, ± flat, not glaucous, margins entire.

10–30 cm.

3–10 cm.

1–2(–4)-flowered.

1-flowered.

tepals: inner ± white, outer ± white and tinged (often strongly) with pink, especially abaxially and along midline, becoming more generally pinkish with age, both inner and outer with yellow band at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 20–40 mm, abaxial surfaces and outer tepals often darker, inner auriculate at base;

stamens 13–22 mm;

filaments white, flattened, slightly widened, linear to lanceolate, 0.8–2 mm wide;

anthers yellow;

style white, 10–20 mm;

stigma with slender, usually recurved lobes 2–4 mm.

held erect at anthesis;

tepals yellow, tinged red-purple or orange abaxially, mostly spreading at anthesis, lanceolate, 20–34 mm, inner with conspicuous, well-developed auricles almost encircling opposing filaments;

stamens 13–17 mm;

filaments yellow, lanceolate;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

style persistent, greenish yellow, swollen distally into stigma, tapering gradually proximally to ovary, forming beak on capsule, 8–11 mm;

stigma lobes erect, short, 1 mm.

obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm.

held erect at maturity on upward-curving peduncle, ellipsoid to ellipsoid-obovoid, 15–25 mm (excluding beak), apex long-beaked.

= 48.

= 24.