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)