Flower/fruit:
Dense, cylindrical cluster of .5 inch creamy white flowers on top
of a mostly leafless stem; persists and turn green to greenish purple
with age; three beaked, dark brown capsule containing red seeds;
leafless flower stalk
Flowering
Season: Early summer
Foliage:
15 to 20 inch grasslike basal
leaves; center rib; blunt tips
Site:
Moist woods –
especially oak forests, meadows, bogs, sandy soil
Comments:
Contains toxic alkaloids
in all parts of the plant
