OregonFlora species comparison

1–15+; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as a basal cluster; ovoid to more or less globose;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous;

cells in more or less vertical rows, forming irregular herringbone pattern, transversely elongate; without fibers.

persistent, withering from tip at anthesis, 2–4;

blades solid, subterete or more or less channeled, 10–36 cm × 0.5–2 mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, 15–50 cm × 3–5 mm.

shattering after seeds mature; each flower deciduous with its pedicel as a unit; erect; compact, 10–50-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 4–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2–3.

5–9 mm;

tepals spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal, white to pink;

margins entire;

apex acute;

stamens included;

ovary crested with 6 prominent processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14, 21, 28.