OregonFlora species comparison

1–5; ovoid to globose;

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

cells isodiametric or more or less narrowly hexagonal, transversely elongate; without fibers.

usually persistent, green at anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat or channeled; more or less falcate, 8–27 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, rarely slightly compressed, narrowly or not winged, 3–10(20) cm × 1–3(4) mm.

persistent; erect; compact, 8–25(30)-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 5–15 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

5–8 mm;

tepals erect, lanceolate to elliptic; more or less equal, white with prominent green to purplish midvein, becoming involute at tip in fruit;

margins entire;

apex obtuse to acuminate;

stamens included;

ovary crestless or obscurely crested with 3 processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.