| Description | A diminutive plant that is easily passed by unless it is flowering. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, dry |
| Soil & Site | found growing in dry open woods and Prairies |
| Flowers | 5/8 inch wide, yellow, 6 parted with 3 sepals and 3 petals |
| Leaves | basal, grass-like, 1/4 inch wide, sparsely hairy, leaves longer than flower stalk |
| Stems | forms a bulb-like rhizome (corm) |
| Dimensions | 12 inches tall or shorter |
| Notes & Reference | #56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd),#100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz), #140-Prairie Plants of the UW Madison Arboretum (Theodore Cochrane, Kandis Elliot, Claudia Lipke) |
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