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.

1–5+; without cluster of basal bulbils; more or less globose;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs; brownish, membranous, reticulate;

cells very fine, often obscure; narrow; more or less transversely elongate, intricately contorted; without fibers.

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

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

usually persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat; more or less falcate, linear, channeled, 7–24 cm × 0.5–3 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 or slightly flattened to very narrowly winged, 3–15 cm × 0.5–2 mm.

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

pedicels 6–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

persistent; erect; compact, 10–20(40)-flowered, hemispheric to globose;

pedicels 3–10 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

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 erect, lanceolate; more or less equal, white with prominent greenish or pink midribs;

margins entire;

apex obtuse to acuminate; more or less involute at tip;

stamens included;

ovary crestless or obscurely crested with 3 low processes;

stigma unlobed.

=14.

=14.