Flora of North America species comparison

± erect, brownish, somewhat compressed-thickened, superficially bulblike, praemorse, not brittle.

horizontal, brownish, short, thick, praemorse, not brittle.

1–3, green, round in cross section, 2–6.5 dm, robust.

1–3, round in cross section, 1.4–4 dm, slender to stout, glabrous.

held well above ground, sessile (narrowing of bract blade may give bract subsessile appearance);

blade densely to weakly mottled in dark brownish green, mottling becoming more obscure to absent as bract matures, broadly ovate, 7–17.6 × 7.4–17.7 cm, not glossy, apex obtuse-rounded.

held well above ground, tips only touching ground in early anthesis, sessile;

blade dark green, mottling darker, mottled to varying degrees, mottling becoming obscure with age, broadly ovate-elliptic to elliptic, 7–15 × 4.6–6.7 cm, not glossy, apex rounded or barely acuminate.

erect, odor roselike, spicy;

sepals spreading-ascending above bracts, green, lanceolate, 35–65 × 7–12 mm, margins entire, flat, apex obtusely rounded;

petals long-lasting, erect, connivent, ± concealing stamens and ovary, yellow, bronze, maroon, brown, deep purple, reddish brown, pink, dark purplish red, purplish bronze, rarely greenish white, not spirally twisted, veins not engraved, oblanceolate to obovate, 6.5–10 × 1.5–2.5 cm, thick-textured, base cuneate, margins entire, apex variably acute to almost truncate, erose;

stamens erect, purplish, 17–26 mm;

filaments purple, ca. 4 mm, widest at base, much shorter than anther sacs;

anthers erect, straight, ± purple-brown, 13–22 mm, dehiscence introrse;

connectives purple, straight, extended ca. 1–1.5 mm beyond anther sacs;

ovary purple, ovoid, 6-angled, 6–12 mm;

stigmas small, divergent or erect, distinct, purple, subulate, 4–8 mm, not fleshy.

erect, odor faintly spicy and bananalike;

sepals displayed above bracts, spreading almost to horizontal, often suffused or streaked with purple-maroon, lanceolate-linear, 22–50 × 5–7 mm, margins entire, apex rounded-acute, recurving slightly;

petals long-lasting, spreading-erect, ± connivent, ± concealing stamens and ovary or sometimes slightly spreading early, only partially obscuring stamens, becoming more erect and even touching in the manner of Trillium cuneatum when older, clear dark red-maroon, or reddish purple, without muddy or brown tones of many purple sessile species, or, rarely, purple basally and yellow toward apex, or clear sulfur yellow, not spirally twisted, narrowly oblanceolate-spatulate to linear-spatulate, widest above middle, narrowing to apex, 4–7 × 0.7–1.7 cm, thick-textured, margins entire, slightly involute in proximal 1/2, apex acute to round-acute;

stamens erect, 12–20 mm;

filaments dark purple, 2–3 mm, widest at base, much shorter than anther sacs;

anthers erect, straight, brownish purple, 10–16 mm, dehiscence introrse on broad connective;

connectives brown-purple, straight, essentially not extended beyond anther sacs;

ovary dark purple, ovoid, weakly 3-angled to smooth (rarely very obscurely 6-angled), angles often obscured in large, turgid ovary, 8–11 mm;

stigmas erect, divergent-recurved, distinct, purplish, subulate, 2–4 mm, fleshy.

red-purple, fragrance not reported, ovoid, obscurely 6-angled, 2.5–3 cm, pulpy, juicy.

dark purplish green, odor not reported, ovoid, obscurely 3- to 6-angled, bearing persistent stigma, 1 × 2 cm, pulpy.

= 10.