Herbs perennial, acaulous, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulb <5–10 mm>, usually surrounded by dense cluster of bulblets, <3–4 mm> (sometimes obscuring bulb); bulb scales 3-nerved. Leaves basal; petiole 7–15 cm; leaflets 3, green, obtriangular-obcordate, 11–25 mm, lobed 1/6–1/3 length, <lobes apically rounded to shallowly convex>, surfaces glabrous, oxalate deposits usually in narrow band <0.5–1.5 mm> along margins at base of notch, sometimes evident on one surface but not other, rarely absent. Inflorescences umbelliform cymes, 3–7-flowered; scapes 7–22 cm, glabrous. Flowers tristylous and distylous; sepal apices with 2 orange, <narrow-elongate, nonconfluent> tubercles; petals white to pale green proximally with green veins, purplish to lavender or pink distally, (9–)12–16 mm. Capsules cylindric, 6 mm, glabrous. 2n = 28, 42.
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