OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

2–5+, clustered, often short-rhizomatous at base, oblong, elongate;

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

cells in regular vertical rows, narrowly elongate; fibers persistent; parallel; few.

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, 3–5;

blades solid; flat, channeled to broadly V-shaped in cross section, 10–25 cm × 1–6 mm.

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

persistent, sometimes 2 or more produced successively from single bulb, usually clustered, nodding; solid; terete or ridged, particularly distally, sometimes flattened and narrowly winged, abruptly recurved near apex, 10–50 cm × 1–3 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, nodding; loose, 8–35-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 6–25 mm, becoming stouter in fruit, elongating and bending abruptly upward from near point of attachment;

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.

4–6 mm;

tepals more or less erect, elliptic-ovate; more or less equal, pink or white;

margins more or less entire;

apex more or less obtuse; at least outer tepals strongly incurved; midribs not thickened;

stamens exserted;

ovary conspicuously crested with 6 triangular processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.