Flora of North America species comparison

2–20+, without basal bulbels, 1–2.5 × 1.2–2.8 cm;

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

inner coats whitish, cells regular, vertically elongate, walls not sinuous.

2–12+, borne on short rhizome, cylindric, 2–5 × 1–2.5 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, white to light brown, membranous, without reticulation;

inner coats white, cells obscure, quadrate.

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

blade solid, flat, channeled, 8–30 cm × 1–2(–3) mm, margins entire.

persistent, 2–6, sheathing lower 1/4–1/3 of scape;

blade terete, fistulose, 10–40 cm × 10–25 mm.

persistent, solitary, erect, ± terete, 10–20 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent, solitary, erect, fistulose, inflated in middle, tapering to umbel, (12–)15–70 cm × 8–25 mm.

persistent, erect, loose, 5–25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 3–7-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate.

persistent, erect, compact, 50–100-flowered, globose to ovoid, bulbils unknown;

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

urceolate, 7–10 mm;

tepals erect, white or pale pink with deep pink midribs to deep rose, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming callous-keeled and permanently investing capsule, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute;

stamens included;

anthers yellow or purple;

pollen yellow;

ovary crestless;

style linear, ± equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed;

pedicel 3–17 mm, ± 2 times perianth at anthesis, elongating in fruit.

narrowly campanulate to urceolate, 6–9 mm;

tepals erect, yellowish white, withering in fruit, margins entire, apex acute, outer lanceolate, inner narrowly ovate, unequal;

stamens long-exserted;

anthers white to yellow;

pollen white;

ovary crestless;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed;

pedicel 10–30 mm.

coat dull or shining;

cells minutely roughened.

coat shining;

cells 4–6-angled, ± rectangular.