Bulbs chunky, 1.6–2.9 × 2.2–4.7 cm, 0.6–1.1 times taller than long, 2(–4) years’ growth visible; scales 1–2-segmented, longest 1.2–2.2 cm; stem roots present or absent. Stems to 1.2 m, glaucous. Buds rounded in cross section. Leaves scattered, or mos...
Perennial herb to 1.5 m tall, finely and inconspicuously pubescent; leaves palmately compound, with long petioles, leaflets 7-9, 3-7 cm long, oblong-oblanceolate, finely strigose below, glabrate above; racemes 10-30 cm long, flowers irregularly whorl...
Densely tufted perennial 5-25 cm tall, covered with minute, harsh, retrorsely barbed hairs that give the surface the texture of shark skin or a cat's tongue; basal leaves spatulate, dentate, with 2-4 teeth per side, or sometimes the smallest leaves n...
Perennial herb; roots tuberous, 1-5, clustered, 0.2-1.4 cm in diameter; leaves deep blue-green, 1-2 (6), emerging prior to, or with, the inflorescence and fading shortly after anthesis (McVaugh [1985] observed leafless flowering plants bearing wither...
Rhizomatous perennial; stems much branched above, wiry, 4-30 cm tall, usually growing in isolated clumps and seldom forming dense stands; blades short, less than 3 cm long, strongly involute; inflorescence a narrow contracted panicle, 1-5 cm long, us...
Herbaceous perennial; stems 5-12 cm long, erect or ascending, freely branching from a woody crown; leaves alternate, oblanceolate to spatulate, sharply pointed, weakly revolute, 5-20 mm long and 2-4 mm wide; stem and leaves grayish and strigose-hispi...
Dense, more or less hemispherical, perennial herb or sub-shrub from a branched, woody caudex, 1-3 dm high; stems and leaves pubescent with appressed, 3-rayed to dendritic trichomes; leaves alternate, succulent, (18-)22-40(-48) mm long, (4-)6-12(-14) ...
Small, cushion-forming perennial herb with a branched caudex; stems erect or ascending, 2.5-6(-10) cm high, hirtellous, mostly obscured by the opposite leaves; stipules lanceolate, scarious, 5-8 mm long and generally equaling the leaves, to 1.5 mm wi...
Perennial; stems solitary or few, glabrous, 3-7 dm tall; leaves entire, opposite, basal leaves elliptic to lanceolate, stem leaves much reduced, 2-4 pairs, sessile, lanceolate; inflorescence slightly glandular, more orless secund, usually as much as ...