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.

1–5, not clustered on stout primary rhizome, increase bulbs absent or ± equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster, rhizomes absent, ovoid, 0.8–2 × 0.8–2 cm;

outer coats enclosing renewal bulbs, grayish to brown, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers;

inner coats pink to red, cells obscure, ± quadrate, or not visible.

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

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

usually deciduous with scape, withering from tip at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface;

blade solid, flat, falcate, 8–18 cm × 3–5 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, flattened, winged distally, wing margins commonly minutely serrulate proximal to umbel, 3–8 cm × 1–4 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, 10–35-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2, 8–10-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate.

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.

conic to campanulate, 8–11 mm;

tepals erect, pink, usually with darker pink midveins, lanceolate to elliptic, ± equal, becoming membranous and rigid in fruit, outer margins entire, inner margins usually minutely denticulate distally, apex obtuse, margins becoming ± involute, appearing acuminate in age;

stamens included;

anthers yellow to light purple;

pollen yellow;

ovary crested;

processes 3, central, 2-lobed, minute, margins entire;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed;

pedicel 5–16 mm.

coat shining;

cells smooth.

coat shining;

cells smooth.

= 14.

= 14.