OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

1–3+; variable; some poorly developed; others ovoid with 1–2 large bulbs and several bulbils at base;

outer coat enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous.

persistent, usually green at anthesis, usually 3–5;

blades solid; more or less straight; flat, channeled; (6)12– 30 cm × 1–3(5) mm.

withering from tips by anthesis, 6–9;

blades solid; flat, channeled, 1–5 × 2–20(30) mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; terete or somewhat 2-angled, 10–50 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; hollow; terete, 45–180 cm × 3–7 mm.

persistent; erect; compact, 10–25-flowered, hemispheric to globose, not producing bulbils, or 0–5-flowered, largely replaced by ovoid, acuminate bulbils;

pedicels becoming rigid and stiffly spreading in fruit, 8–13 mm;

spathe bracts 2–3.

persistent; erect; compact; to 500-flowered; few-flowered in variants with bulbils, globose;

pedicels 15–50 mm;

spathe bracts 3–5.

(4)6–8(10) mm;

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

margins often obscurely toothed;

apex obtuse to acuminate;

stamens included;

ovary when present, inconspicuously crested with 3–6 low processes;

stigma unlobed or obscurely lobed.

4–5.5 mm;

tepals erect, white, pink, or dark red;

outer tepals oblong-lanceolate;

margins entire;

apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate;

inner tepals narrowly ovate to spatulate;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens equaling perianth or exserted;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.