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.

1–3, producing cluster of stalked basal bulbils above roots or filiform rhizomes to 10 cm and terminated by bulbils; ovoid;

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

cells more or less quadrate;

walls very sinuous; 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 by anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat, distinctly concave-convex, 8–40 cm × 1–5 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 or clustered, 1–3; erect; solid; terete, 10–30 cm × 1–5 mm.

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

pedicels 6–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

persistent; erect; loose, 10–50-flowered; more or less globose;

pedicels 10–20 mm, becoming flexuous and mostly strongly deflexed in fruit;

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.

5–8 mm;

tepals spreading, lanceolate to ovate; more or less equal; rose to purple (rarely white) with darker purple basal crescent on ventral side, keeled in fruit, becoming erect; more or less shiny; rigid;

margins entire;

apex acuminate, strongly involute at tip;

stamens included;

ovary crested with 6 prominent processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.

=14, 28.