Plants are somewhat dainty in appearance, featuring solitary (less frequently 2-3), drooping, 2 long, bell-shaped flowers which are checkered and veined with reddish-brown, purple, white and gray atop slender stems growing to 15 tall. Blooms in April. Linear, lance-shaped, grass-like green leaves are widely spaced on the stems. Also commonly called guinea-hen flower because of the resemblance of the mottled flower color to a guinea hen. In the right environment, it will live long and naturalize well.
