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.

5–20+; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing renewal bulbs; more or less translucent, obscurely cellular-reticulate; thin, membranous; meshes delicate;

cells vertically elongate, 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.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3;

blades solid; flat, not falcate; more or less keeled, 15–50 cm × 3–15 mm;

margins entire.

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, clustered; erect; solid, sharply 3-angled, 10–40 cm × 1–10 mm.

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

pedicels 6–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

persistent; lax; loose, 3–15-flowered; more or less 1-sided;

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

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.

becoming pendent, 10–18 mm;

tepals erect to spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal, white with prominent green midrib;

margins entire;

apex acute;

stamens included;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.

=18.