Flora of North America species comparison

ovoid, 10–25 mm;

stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants.

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

4–13 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire.

4–16 cm;

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

3.9–12 cm.

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

1-flowered.

1–4-flowered.

tepals 4–6, strongly reflexed at anthesis, pale pink to white, darker abaxially, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, auricles absent;

stamens 2–6, 6–8 mm;

filaments white, lanceolate;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

style white, 6–10 mm;

stigma ± unlobed.

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.

very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum.

obovoid, 2–5 cm.

= 24.