Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 40–55 mm.

ovoid, 30–55 mm, sometimes producing sessile bulbels.

ovoid, 10–25 mm;

stolons absent, or 1 per bulb on 1-leaved plants.

10–25 cm;

blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, oblong to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy.

7–20 cm;

blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy.

5–17 cm;

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

reddish, 12–30 cm.

12–30 cm.

4–18 cm.

1–4-flowered.

1–3-flowered.

1-flowered.

tepals violet to pink, darker at tips, dark purple at base, broadly lanceolate, 18–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 10–14 mm;

filaments violet-purple, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;

anthers pale brown to purple;

style violet, 6–8 mm;

stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm.

fragrant;

tepals ± white, bright yellow at base, pinkish in age, lanceolate to ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 8–13 mm;

filaments ± yellow, linear, ± slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;

anthers yellow;

style ± white, often bent to one side, 5–8 mm;

stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm.

tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, yellow, sometimes with brownish adaxial spots, variously tinged brown-purple abaxially, lanceolate, 13–30 mm, auricles absent;

stamens 9–18 mm;

filaments yellow, lanceolate;

anthers brown, purple, or infrequently yellow;

pollen brown, purple, or infrequently yellow;

ovary apex indented;

style deciduous or forming small apiculum, ± terete, not yellow, 8–24 mm;

stigma lobes spreading, 1.2–1.7 mm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

± resting on ground due to reclining peduncle, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex indented, umbilicate, or rarely rounded.

= 24.

= 24.

= 24.