Intro: Scapose, rhizomatous perennial found in bogs and wet pine savannas at the southern end of our range.

Stems: Stem an unbranched, mostly naked (a few small reddish-green bracts) flowering scape, rising from the center of a rosette.

Leaves: Leaves in a basal rosette, elliptic to lance-shaped, 2 1/2-7 in. long, yellowish-green.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a spike-like raceme occupying a large portion of the scape, yellow, about 3/4 in. long, cylindric and composed of 6 fused petals that at full bloom flare into 6 triangular-pointed lobes; the tube has a granular-bumpy outer surface.

Fruits: Fruit a beaked, oval capsules containing tiny reddish-brown seeds.

Comments: Flowers of the similar Aletris aurea (p. xx) are short-cylindric with lobes that do not spread; it tends to bloom later.

Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Scapose, rhizomatous perennial found in bogs and wet pine savannas at the southern end of our range.

stems: Stem an unbranched, mostly naked (a few small reddish-green bracts) flowering scape, rising from the center of a rosette.

leaves: Leaves in a basal rosette, elliptic to lance-shaped, 2 1/2-7 in. long, yellowish-green.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a spike-like raceme occupying a large portion of the scape, yellow, about 3/4 in. long, cylindric and composed of 6 fused petals that at full bloom flare into 6 triangular-pointed lobes; the tube has a granular-bumpy outer surface.

fruits: Fruit a beaked, oval capsules containing tiny reddish-brown seeds.

comments: Flowers of the similar Aletris aurea (p. xx) are short-cylindric with lobes that do not spread; it tends to bloom later.

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