Flowers with five white petals, lined reddish-pink, two-toothed, measured to 22 mm diameter cm in diameter. Umbel of two to 5 flowers per plant. Two opposite stem leaves, lanceolate, noticeably rubbery/succulent. Plants glabrous.
Habitat is south facing, woody ravines, and dried stream beds in our Cypress Upland. We have seen the ground carpeted white with these tiny plants in early May. A spring ephemeral, grows from a small corm.
Plants measured to 17 cm in height.
Rare, listed as an S2S3 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.
Above photos were taken May 8th and June 8th in the Cypress Hills about 450 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.
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