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, producing cluster of stalked basal bulbils above roots or filiform rhizomes to 10 cm and terminated by bulbils; ovoid;

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

cells more or less quadrate;

walls very 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, withering from tip by anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat, distinctly concave-convex, 8–40 cm × 1–5 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 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, 10–50-flowered; more or less globose;

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

spathe bracts 2–3.

(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.

5–8 mm;

tepals spreading, lanceolate to ovate; more or less equal; rose to purple (rarely white) with darker purple basal crescent on ventral side, keeled in fruit, becoming erect; more or less shiny; rigid;

margins entire;

apex acuminate, strongly involute at tip;

stamens included;

ovary crested with 6 prominent processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14, 28.