inear, present with the flowers --35.
35a. Umbel nodding or horizontal (petals rose-color)
=Wild Onion, Allium cernuum.=
35b. Umbel erect --36.
36a. Pedicels longer than the flowers --37.
36b. Pedicels equaling or shorter than the flowers (petals
rose-purple)
=Wild Chives, Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum.=
37a. Leaves flattened; flowers pink to white
=Wild Onion, Allium canadense.=
37b. Leaves cylindrical; flowers greenish to purple
=Field Garlic, Allium vineale.=
38a. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, not more than 8 times as long as
broad --39.
38b. Leaves linear or grass-like, at least 12 times as long as
broad --45.
39a. Principal leaves all basal, stem-leaves none or bract-like --40.
39b. Principal leaves on the stem --41.
40a. Flowers in a spike-like raceme (4-10 dm. high; small white
flowers in summer) =Colic-root, Aletris farinosa.=
40b. Flowers in an umbel-like cluster --34b.
41a. Perianth-segments 4 (1-2 dm. high; flowers white, early summer)
=Wild Lily of the Valley, Maianthemum canadense.=
41b. Perianth-segments 6 --42.
42a. Styles 3; flowers dioecious (3-10 dm. high; flowers white,
early summer) =Blazing Star, Chamaelirium luteum.=
42b. Style 1; flowers perfect, white, in spring (False Solomon's
Seal) --43.
43a. Flowers panicled (3-6 dm. high)
=False Solomon's Seal, Smilacina racemosa.=
43b. Flowers racemed --44.
44a. Leaves 2-4, usually 3 (1-2 dm. high)
=False Solomon's Seal, Smilacina trifolia.=
44b. Leaves 5-12 (2-5 dm. high)
=False Solomon's Seal, Smilacina stellata.=
45a. Flowers bright blue; perianth-segments united (2-3 dm. high,
spring) =Grape Hyacinth, Muscari botryoides.=
45b. Flowers blue, greenish, yellowish, or white; perianth-segments
separate --46.
46a. Flowers 1 cm. wide, or smaller (white or greenish, in racemes,
late spring or summer) (False Asphodel) --47.
46b. Flowers 1.5 cm. wide, or larger --48.
47a. Stem glabrous (2 dm. high or less)
=False Asphodel, Tofieldia palu
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