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flower |
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Habitat: |
moist woods |
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Plant Height: |
10-20 cm, erect stem |
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Flower Color: |
white, often tinged with lavender on outside |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; 3 white sepals; 3 white petals; sepals and petals reflexed; 6 stamens, adnate to base of petals and sepals, anthers yellow; stigma white, 3 styles; ovary superior; 2.5 cm wide |
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Inflorescence: |
single nodding flower |
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Fruit: |
many-seeded capsule |
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Leaves: |
2 basal leaves; entire; linear-elliptic to oblanceolate; mottled with red/brown; non-flowering plants have a single leaf |
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Bloom Time: |
April-May |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
grows in colonies; nearly identical to E. americanum except for flower color | |