Flora of North America species comparison

narrowly ovoid, 25–60 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets.

ovoid, 10–25 mm;

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

12–25 cm;

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

5–17 cm;

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

± reddish, 15–40 cm.

4–18 cm.

1–3-flowered.

1-flowered.

tepals white to creamy white with yellow base at anthesis, sometimes pinkish in age, sometimes with red lines or bands, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 12–25 mm;

filaments white, flattened, ± lanceolate, 2–3 mm wide;

anthers cream to yellow;

style white, 12–18 mm;

stigma with recurved lobes 3–6 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.

oblong to narrowly obovoid, 3–5 cm.

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

= 24.

= 24.