Flora of North America species comparison

ovoid, 20–50 mm, producing bulbels (usually 1–3 per parent bulb) at ends of long, slender stolons.

± ovoid, 40–75 mm.

4–16 cm;

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

7–30 cm;

blade green, oblanceolate to elliptic, margins ± wavy.

8–23 cm, branching just above leaves near ground level when flowers more than 1.

8–35 cm.

1–4-flowered.

1–10-flowered.

flowering individuals generally uncommon in populations, most plants 1-leaved and vegetative;

tepals white to cream with yellow base, broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 16–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 10–15 mm;

filaments white, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;

anthers white to cream;

style white, 10–13 mm;

stigma unlobed or with recurved lobes 1–4 mm.

tepals yellow, bronze in age, lanceolate, 15–28 mm, not auriculate at base;

stamens 8–12 mm;

filaments yellow, slender;

anthers yellow;

style yellow, 6–8 mm;

stigma unlobed or with very short, rounded lobes shorter than 1 mm.

obovoid, 2–5 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

= 24.