OregonFlora species comparison

1–5; ovoid;

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

cells transversely elongate; in regular vertical rows, narrowly rectangular; without fibers.

usually deciduous with scape, withering from tip at anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat, falcate, 7–26 cm × 4–6 mm.

usually forming abscission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature; solitary; erect; solid, flattened, narrowly winged, 5–15 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent; erect; more or less compact, 15–35-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 7–17(20) mm;

spathe bracts 2.

8–12 mm;

tepals spreading, linear-lanceolate; more or less equal, light pink with diffuse greenish midveins;

margins entire;

apex acute;

stamens more or less equaling tepals;

ovary crested with 6 inconspicuous processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.