Bulbs usually solitary, ovoid, 1.5-3 cm diam. Leaves 3-9, 2-6 dm × 5-25 mm. Inflorescences 20-130 cm; sterile bracts 0, bracts subtending flowers usually shorter than pedicel. Flowers actinomorphic; tepals strongly connivent over capsules after anthesis, deciduous as capsules develop, bluish violet to bright blue or creamy white, each 5-, 7-, or 9-veined, 20-40 × 4-10 mm; anthers yellow, 4-7 mm; fruiting pedicel spreading-erect, 15-50 mm. Capsules often deciduous from pedicel, dull green, ovoid to ellipsoid, 10-25 × 6-12 mm. Seeds 6-12 per locule. 2n = 30.