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Perennial, grass-like herb. Leaves linear, up to 1 m long, up to 40 mm wide, glabrous or with scattered hairs on margins and keel. Inflorescence branched raceme or rarely simple through reduction, erect or sometimes becoming prostrate, usually pubescent; pedicels recurved in fruit, up to 20 mm long. Flowers white, with yellow spots near base. Fruit an ovoid to globose or cylindric, glabrous capsule. Flowering time Aug., Sept.
An onion like plant. It is erect and hairy and has a rhizome. It grows 50 cm tall. The roots are spindle shaped and often swollen and spongy. The leaves are narrow. The flowers are in branched groups in the axils of leaves. The flowers are 10 mm long and white and hairy. They are on slender stalks. The fruit is oval or round and a slightly fleshy capsule. The seeds are black.
Rhizomatous perennial, up to 0.5 m tall, roots few, rather fleshy. Leaves few, straggling, strap-shaped, channelled, spongy, usually hairy. Flowers white, spotted yellow at base, in several, long, sprawling, usually hairy racemes with conspicuous overlapping bracts. Capsules ovoid, 6-14 mm long, on recurved pedicels up to 20 mm long.
Rhizomatous perennial to 50 cm, roots many, rather fleshy and swollen. Leaves straggling, channelled, soft and spongy, usually hairy. Flowers in sprawling, elongate, usually hairy raceme with conspicuous bracts, white. Fruits on long, deflexed pedicels.
