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.

1–3, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–2.5(–3) × 1.2–2 cm;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, dark reddish brown, chartaceous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers;

inner coats light brown or white, cells obscurely quadrate.

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

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

persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 1, basally sheathing, sheath never extending much above soil level;

blade solid, terete, 30–45 cm × 2–4 mm.

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

persistent, solitary, erect, ± solid, terete, 18–60 cm × 2–3 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, 18–190-flowered, hemispheric to globose, bulbils unknown;

spathe bracts persistent, 4, 3-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex long-acuminate.

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.

campanulate, 5–9 mm;

tepals erect, white to pink with darker midveins, unequal, becoming papery in fruit, margins entire or irregular to erose, apex acute or acuminate to long-acuminate;

outer tepals lanceolate to ovate, reflexed at tip;

inner 1/4–1/3 longer than outer, ovate to broadly ovate;

stamens exserted;

anthers yellow or purple;

pollen yellow or white;

ovary crested;

processes 6, prominent, erect, ± triangular, margins entire;

style linear, equaling stamens;

stigma capitate, obscurely to distinctly 3-lobed, lobes erect or spreading, ± stout;

pedicel 8–22 mm.

coat dull or shining;

cells minutely roughened.

coat dull;

cells minutely roughened.