Flora of North America species comparison

2–8, reduced and alternate distally;

blade linear or lanceolate.

slightly dimorphic;

basal 2, blade linear, 4–10(–20) cm × 0.8–1 mm;

cauline 2–4, blade lanceolate, 1–5 × 0.1–0.2 cm.

terminal, racemose, 1–2[–several]-flowered, loose, leafy-bracteate.

slightly fragrant;

perianth white with greenish to purplish veins, or yellow;

tepals marcescent, 6, spreading, distinct, equal, transversely corrugate, with small, nectariferous gland above base;

stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals;

filaments slender;

anthers basifixed, ellipsoid, latrorse;

ovary superior, 3-locular;

style persistent, distinct, 3-fid, short, lobes short.

1–2;

tepals 0.9–1.2(–1.4) cm;

stamens erect;

filaments 3–8 mm;

anthers 0.6–1(–1.2) mm.

capsular, obovoid to globose, dehiscence loculicidal.

6–8 mm.

black, 3-angled.

= 12.