Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched or simple, 2–30 cm.

simple erect or ascending, 10–30 cm.

alternate, erect, not distinctly petiolate, with clasping leaf sheaths;

blade linear, 2–60 × 1–4 mm.

basal and alternate, petiolate;

blade oblanceolate, 10–70 × 4–12 mm.

terminal, 1-bracteate;

bract linear to oblanceolate, to 20 × 2 mm.

leafy, from apices of fertile caudex branches (determinate) or from leaf axils of shortened fertile caudex (indeterminate), sometimes bulbiliferous in leaf axils.

2–8;

sepals 3–7 mm;

petals 5, white, 4–6 mm;

stamens 3–5, anther yellow.

1–12, showy;

sepals 2–3.5 mm;

petals 5, pink or white, 6–15 mm;

stamens 5, anther pink.

1.2–2.6 mm, tuberculate;

elaiosome absent.

0.8–1.5 mm;

eliaosome rounded, minute, shorter than 0.5 mm, shiny, appearing smooth.

= 28.

= 22, 44.