This table depicts various author's descriptions of this specific species
(see the Reference section of this web site).
Note the variation in the number of authors descriptions. Furthermore there is
significant variation even within known species plants.
Each column which is marked allows the user to go and see a specific plant
for an example of how this species appears. This plant is an early bloomer
however.
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Name |
Color |
Time of Bloom |
Scapes |
Leaves |
Bracts |
Fragrance |
Blooming |
Flower |
Roots |
Seeds |
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Stout |
Light orange not
opening fully scapes and buds tinged with brown red
Inner surface flower
is orange
|
Early flowering |
Scape unbranched, 2-4
flowers sessile or nearly so |
Leaves rather stiffly
ascending spreading 1” thick and less than 2’
|
Bracts broad and
overlapping near flower |
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Main roots very
fleshy
Conspicuously
enlarged |
Capsule globuose |
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Erhardt |
Brownish red on
outside bud, open flowers orange |
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Rises at slight angle
from center fan with 2-4 flowers arranged in pairs at apex |
Leaves grow stiffly
erect and are 15-20” long and ¾ to 1” wide tapering a little towards end
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Bell shaped flower
sepals 1” and ¼” wide petals 3/8 to ½ “ wide |
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Obovate and 1” long
and ¾” in diameter |
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Jelitto and Schact |
Flowers are orange
yellow exterior brown tinged |
May to June |
Scapes 15-17” long
with 2-8 flowers |
Leaves delicate and
¾” wide and 18” long |
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Hortus Third |
Pale orange |
spring |
Scape to 1 ½’
Unbranched spreading
and shorter than leaves
Flowers 2-4 in close
clusters
|
Leaves to 1 ½’ and ½”
wide
|
Flowers subtended by
broad bracts which are lanceolate and as long as pedicels |
fragrant |
|
2 ½’ long perianth
tube to ¼’ long |
Roots very fleshy
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Munson |
orange inside and
petals and brownish red on back of sepals |
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Sessile with short
pedicles 2-4 flowers compacted into close inflorescence |
1” width stiffly
ascending and coarse plants stand less 2’ tall |
Overlapping basal
bracts lowest 2” in length and accuminate |
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Petals 2” long ½ ‘
wide sepals are smaller
Buds tinged with
brownish red |
Conspicuously
enlarged |
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Grenfell |
Reddish brown in bud
opening to rich yellow and up to 3” across |
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Scapes same length as
leaves or a little taller are unbranched and lean towards ground bear up
to 4 flowers
|
14” leaves which
become lax after flowering |
Flower stalks are
hidden by two overlapping bracts |
fragrant |
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Capsule is subglobose |
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Plodeck |
orange |
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2-4 buds in pairs
15-22” high |
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Pedicel Covered by
bracts |
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Bell shaped oval
elongated tepals sepals 2” long ½” wide petals ½” wide a bit reflexed
short tube |
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Peat & Petit |
Buds reddish brown
buds brown on sepal reverse
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Unbranched scape less
than 24”
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Roots conspicuously
enlarged |
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Telmarc 
