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+; renewal bulbs formed within coats of parent bulb; increase bulbs absent or 1–2; more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster; ovoid;

outer coats membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows adjacent to roots; more or less quadrate; 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 deciduous with scape, 2;

blades solid; flat, strongly falcate, 5–18 cm × 1–3(4) 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.

usually forming abscission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature; solitary; erect; solid, flattened, slightly 2-edged, 3–7 cm × 1–3 mm.

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

pedicels 6–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

deciduous with scape; erect; compact, 5–12-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 3–12 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.

7–9 mm;

tepals erect, oblong; more or less equal, white to pale pink with red midribs;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens included;

ovary more or less distinctly crested with 3 or 6 low processes;

stigma unlobed.

=14.

=14.