Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 40–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets.

ovoid, 10–25 mm;

stolons absent, or 1 per bulb on 1-leaved plants.

9–15 cm;

blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy.

5–17 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, ± flat, not glaucous, margins entire.

12–35 cm.

4–18 cm.

1–3-flowered.

1-flowered.

tepals ± white, often pinkish, usually pale yellow at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–45 mm, inner with or without small auricles at base;

stamens 11–17 mm;

filaments linear, white or pinkish, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;

anthers white, cream, pink, reddish, or brownish red;

style straight, white or pink, 6–10 mm;

stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm.

tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, yellow, sometimes with brownish adaxial spots, variously tinged brown-purple abaxially, lanceolate, 13–30 mm, auricles absent;

stamens 9–18 mm;

filaments yellow, lanceolate;

anthers brown, purple, or infrequently yellow;

pollen brown, purple, or infrequently yellow;

ovary apex indented;

style deciduous or forming small apiculum, ± terete, not yellow, 8–24 mm;

stigma lobes spreading, 1.2–1.7 mm.

obovoid, 2–5 cm.

± resting on ground due to reclining peduncle, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex indented, umbilicate, or rarely rounded.

= 24.

= 24.