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.

2–20+, clustered on thick; iris-like rhizome, elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous, minutely striate;

cells in regular vertical rows, elongate, not fibrous-reticulate; fibers persistent; parallel; few; coarse.

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, 3–6;

blades solid; flat, 20–70(80) cm × 4–15 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, flattened and narrowly winged distally, 30–70 cm × 2–7 mm.

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

pedicels 6–16 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

persistent; erect; compact, 15–30-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 10–15 mm, elongating and becoming stout in fruit;

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.

8–10 mm;

tepals erect to more or less spreading, narrowly lanceolate; more or less equal, pink;

margins entire;

apex acuminate; midribs scarcely thickened;

stamens exserted;

ovary crestless;

stigma unlobed.

=14.

=28, 56.