Flora of North America species comparison

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Eremocrinum

eremocrinum, sand lily
Habit Herbs, perennial, caulescent, glabrous, from short, vertical rhizomes with fleshy roots.
Leaves

8–12, basal, tufted, each tuft surrounded basally by fibrous, persistent sheaths;

blade linear.
Inflorescences

terminal, racemose, spikelike, elongate, dense, bracteate.
Flowers

rather showy, not obviously fragrant;

perianth persistent, white to greenish white, with 3 greenish to brown stripes, these confluent terminally;

tepals 6, shortly connate proximally, spreading distally, oblong, equal;

perianth tube stipelike;

stamens 6, hypogynous, 1-seriate;

filaments linear, flattened, ca. 1/2 length of tepals;

anthers basifixed, becoming strongly incurved, introrse;

ovary superior, 3-locular, ovules few per locule;

style filiform, elongate;

stigma discoid;

pedicel short, slender, subtended by scarious bract.
Fruits

capsular, 3-lobed, globose, dehiscence loculicidal.
Seeds

4–8(–12), black, angled.

Eremocrinum
Distribution
from USDA
s Utah and n Ariz
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 216. Authors: James L. Reveal, Frederick H. Utech.
Parent taxa Liliaceae
Subordinate taxa
E. albomarginatum
Name authority M. E. Jones: Zoë 4: 53. (1893)
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