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.

usually solitary, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 0.8–1.6 × 0.6–1.4 cm;

outer coats enclosing single bulb, brownish, membranous, with ± obscure reticulations, cells isodiametric to transversely elongate, often contorted, without fibers;

inner coats white to pink, cells obscure, quadrate.

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

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

usually dedicuous with scape, green at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extended much above soil surface;

blade solid, flat to ± terete, linear, broadly channeled, 4–22 cm × 1–2 mm, margins entire.

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

usually forming abcission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature, frequently breaking at this level after pressing, solitary, erect, solid, slightly flattened, very narrowly winged or not, 1–5 cm × 0.5–2 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, 5–15-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2, 6–9-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex obtuse or acute.

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, 5–9 mm;

tepals erect, white with green or reddish midribs or rarely pink, oblong to lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins obscurely to distinctly denticulate-serrulate, apex obtuse to acuminate;

stamens included;

anthers purple or mottled purple and white;

pollen white or gray;

ovary crested;

processes 3, low, rounded, margins entire;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed;

pedicel 2–5 mm.

coat shining;

cells smooth.

coat dull or shining;

cells smooth.

= 14.

= 14.