Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1–1.8 × 0.7–1.5 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous;

inner coats whitish or brownish, cells intricately contorted, walls not sinuous.

2–3+, not rhizomatous, ovoid, 1–2 × 1.2–2 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, light brown, reticulate, fibrous;

inner coats whitish to light brown, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure.

persistent, green at anthesis, 3–5, sheathing;

blade solid, flat, channeled, 10–30 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3, sheathing;

blade solid, flat, ± falcate, 10–20 cm × 3–6 mm, margins entire.

persistent, solitary, erect, ± terete, 10–30 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± winged-angled, mostly 10–20 cm × 1–2.5 mm.

persistent, erect, compact or ± loose, usually 10–25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate.

persistent, erect, compact, 8–27-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2–4, mostly 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate to caudate.

campanulate to ± stellate, 6–9 mm;

tepals spreading, bright yellow, sometimes tinged with red, fading with age and sometimes upon drying, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery and rigid in fruit, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute, midribs somewhat thickened;

stamens included;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

ovary crestless or rarely crested;

processes 6, central, low, sometimes distinct or connate in pairs across septa, rounded, margins entire;

style linear, ± equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed;

pedicel 5–20 mm.

campanulate, 7–9 mm;

tepals erect, light pink, narrowly lanceolate to lance-ovate, becoming callous-keeled, persistent and permanently investing capsule, margins entire, apex acuminate, inner shorter and narrower than outer, outer strongly keeled and gibbous at base;

stamens included;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

ovary obscurely crested;

processes 6, central, ± erect, rounded, minute, to 1 mm, margins entire;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed;

pedicel 10–18 mm.

coat shining;

cells smooth.

coat shining;

cells smooth, each with minute, central papilla.

= 14.