Zigadenus glaberrimus, the sandbog death camas, is a flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 and the only member of the genus Zigadenus.

Growing from thick, twisted rhizomes, plants reach 60 to 120 cm tall. With age, It has leaves that are sometimes marked with reddish brown tinting. it has 30 to 75 white to cream colored flowers grouped into a loosely paniculate shaped inflorescence

Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...

. The flower tepal

Tepal

Tepals are elements of the perianth, or outer part of a flower, which include the petals or sepals. The term tepal is more often applied specifically when all segments of the perianth are of similar shape and color, or undifferentiated, which is called perigone...

s are persistent in fruit. The seed capsules are conic in shape and 10 to 15 mm long.

Z. glaberrimus flowers from mid July to September. It is found growing in pine bogs, savannas and sandy pinelands in the US states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia and North and South Carolina.