OregonFlora species comparison

5–20, clustered, stipitate; hard-shelled, asymmetric; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing bulbs, membranous, vertically striate, splitting into parallel strips and fibers, cellular reticulations vertical, arranged in more or less wavy rows.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–4;

blades hollow below middle; terete, cylindric or filiform, not carinate, 20–60 cm × 2–4 mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; terete, 30–120 cm × 1.5–4 mm.

persistent; erect; more or less compact, 0–50-flowered, subglobose to ovoid or hemispheric, flowering pedicels all or in part replaced by bulbils; bulbils sessile, basally narrowed, 4–6 × 2–3 mm;

pedicels 10–20 mm at flowering;

spathe bract 1.

3–4 mm;

tepals erect, elliptic-lanceolate; more or less equal; greenish to purple;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens exserted;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=32, 40.