6. Clintonia Raf., Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 266 (1818).

Perennial, rhizomatous herbs; rhizome short. Scapes erect, often leafless, densely pubescent, unbranched, shorter at flowering and elongate at fruiting. Leaves 3 or more in basal rosette, simple, ± petiolate, obovate, elliptic-obovate, or oblanceolate, apex acuminate, margin entire, usually hairy when young, veins many, parallel. Inflorescences a terminal raceme or umbel, very rarely single-flowered, borne on scape; bract present or absent, if present linear. Flowers small, bisexual, actinomorphic, campanulate; rachis and pedicels at flowering comparively shorter and nodding, usually elongates and become erect while fruiting, densely hairy. Tepals 6, whitish or rarely bluish, free, almost equal in size. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments filiform; anthers dorsisifixed, subextrose, ellipsoid. Ovary 3-loculed; style columnar, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a berry. Seeds 2 or more.