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, 10–25 mm;

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

4–16 cm;

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

5–17 cm;

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

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

4–18 cm.

1–4-flowered.

1-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 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, 2–5 cm.

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

= 24.

= 24.