Photograph by Mollie MacCormac. Line drawing of plant . Base of plants showing fibrous roots, bulb leaves from which leaves with long petioles develop, and the deeply crenate leaf blades. Plants in the high Arctic rarely have long petioles. Inflorescence and bulblets .
Bulblets fall off and can vegetatively propagate new plants.
Close-up of flower . Terminal soliatry flower, with 5 white petals,10 anthers and two carpels topped with white pom-pom stigmas. Flowering stem with red vegetative bulbils. Scale bar in cm. Photograph by Mollie MacCormac.