Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 25–40 mm.

ovoid to ± globose, 10–25 mm;

stolons absent; flowering plants reproducing vegetatively by droppers or offshoots.

6–17 cm;

blade green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, ± folded along midvein, margins entire to wavy.

5–14 cm;

blade green, usually not mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, conduplicate, glaucous, base and margins sometimes purple-brown, margins even.

6–20 cm.

5–15 cm.

1–3-flowered.

1-flowered.

tepals 2/3 or more white, with yellow zone at base, ± pinkish in age, broadly lanceolate, 20–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 8–14 mm;

filaments white, slender;

anthers ± yellow;

style white, 4–9 mm;

stigma ± unlobed.

tepals spreading at anthesis, white, tinged pink, blue, or lavender abaxially, with yellow adaxial spot at base, lanceolate, 15–30 mm, auricles absent;

stamens 8–15 mm;

filaments yellow, lanceolate;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

style white, 7–10 mm;

stigma lobes recurving, 1–1.5 mm.

narrowly obovoid, 2–5 cm.

resting on ground at maturity due to reclining peduncle, obovoid, 10–15 mm, apex rounded to faintly apiculate or umbilicate.

= 24.

= 22.