OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

1–5+;

rhizomes absent; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as a basal cluster; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing renewal and increase bulbs, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows adjacent to roots; more or less quadrate; 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.

usually deciduous with scape, withering from tip at anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat, falcate, 8–21 cm × 2–8 mm.

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

usually forming abscission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature; solitary; erect; solid, strongly flattened, winged distally, 5–25 cm × 1–4 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 more or less loose, 10–30-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 8–15 mm;

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.

9–15 mm;

tepals erect, lanceolate; more or less equal; reddish purple or dingy white; at least inner margins denticulate;

apex long-acuminate;

stamens included;

ovary crested with 3 low processes;

stigma unlobed.

=14.