OregonFlora species comparison

1–6+, replaced annually with new bulbs borne terminally on short; secondary rhizomes, parent bulb disappearing by anthesis except for still-functional roots and shriveled bulb coat, oblique-ovoid;

outer coats not or only partially enclosing bulbs, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows adjacent to roots; more or less quadrate; without fibers.

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.

usually deciduous with scape, withering from tip at anthesis; (1)2;

blades solid; flat, falcate, 10–33 cm × 1.5–10 mm.

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

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

usually forming abscission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature; solitary; more or less erect; solid, flattened, winged distally;

wings frequently crenulate proximal to umbel, 5–15 cm × 1–5 mm.

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

persistent; erect; compact, 10–25-flowered, conic to hemispheric;

pedicels 6–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

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.

6–12 mm;

tepals erect, lanceolate; more or less equal, white to pinkish with deeper pink, purple or greenish midveins;

margins entire;

apex acute;

stamens included;

ovary obscurely crested with 3 minute, 2-lobed processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

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.

=14, 21, 28.