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; larger bulbs each usually with cluster of 10–30 easily detached bulbils to one side of base, globose to ovoid;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous; 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;

blades solid; flat or channeled, 10–25 cm × 1–4 mm.

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

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; more or less terete, sometimes ridged, 10–20 cm × 1–2 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, 10–20(40)-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 5–12 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.

6–10 mm;

tepals erect or more or less spreading, white with prominent green or pink midveins, lanceolate; more or less equal;

margins entire;

apex obtuse to acuminate, becoming involute at tip;

stamens included;

ovary crestless or obscurely crested with 3 minute processes;

stigma unlobed or slightly lobed.

=28, 42.