OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

1–7+, commonly producing either a cluster of stalked;

basal bulbils or filiform rhizomes to 10 cm, terminated by bulbils;

rhizomes usually lost when specimens are collected; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous, obscurely cellular-reticulate;

cells rectangular;

walls minutely sinuous; vertical, varying to irregular; all sinuous; without fibers.

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

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

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–5;

blades solid; flat, broadly channeled, 8–30 cm × 1–13 mm.

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

persistent; solitary or clustered, 1–3; erect; solid; terete, 10–30(40) cm × 1–5 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; loose, 15–40-flowered, globose;

pedicels 10–20 mm, often becoming flexuous and deflexed in fruit;

spathe bracts 2.

(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.

7–10 mm;

tepals spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal; lilac to white, becoming papery in fruit, not keeled;

margins entire;

apex acuminate, not involute;

stamens included;

ovary conspicuously crested with 6 triangular processes;

stigma unlobed.

=14, 28.