1 Flowers white (often marked with red or purple blotches, spots, or lines), the tepals 5.5-8 mm long; flowers 10-30 per inflorescence (in fruit often fewer by abortion); berries black or blue, 6-8 mm long, each with 2-4 seeds; leaf margins and lower surface of midvein (near lower, sheathing portion of leaf) retrorsely ciliate; plants solitary or somewhat colonial, the rhizomes 2-4 mm in diameter; leaf blade 2-5× as long as wide; [plants of middle elevations, or northwards at low elevations as well, generally associated with oak or cove forests]