Flora of North America species comparison

napiform to shortly fusiform.

cormlike, globose.

suberect, becoming horizontal or deflexed after anthesis, base subterranean, 5–12 cm.

lax to erect, 3–11 cm.

basal leaves withering at or soon after anthesis, gradually narrowed to broad petiole, blade narrowly linear to linear-oblanceolate, flattened, 4–15 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute;

cauline leaves absent.

basal leaves withering before anthesis, ± sessile, blade narrowly linear to filiform, subcylindric, 1–6 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute;

cauline leaves 2–3(–5), paired or whorled, blade similar to basal leaves, 10–50 mm.

usually with flowers borne singly, rarely 2–3-flowered in racemose cymes;

bracts 2, opposite, linear-lanceolate, 6–18 mm, margins entire, apex acute.

usually subumbellate to paniculate cymes, (1–)3–25-flowered;

bracts 2 per flower, ovate to lanceolate, 1–5 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute.

pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit, 0.5–2 cm diam.;

sepals 2, broadly ovate, 5–13 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins entire or with few shallow, nonglandular teeth, apex acute to subacute;

petals 5–10, white or rarely pinkish, elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–15(–20) mm;

stamens 6–15;

stigmas 3–6;

pedicel 10–40 mm.

pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit;

sepals 2, ovate, 2–4 mm, herbaceous, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse;

petals 5–9, white or pinkish with darker veins, elliptic-obovate to elliptic-ovate, 4–7 mm;

stamens (3–)4(–5);

stigmas 3–5;

pedicel 5–15(–25) mm.

5–10 mm.

3–4 mm.

20–50, 1.3 mm, shiny, muricate.

8–25, 1 mm, shiny, shallowly tuberculate.

= 56.