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+; renewal bulbs formed within coats of parent bulb; increase bulbs absent or 1–2; more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster; ovoid;

outer coats 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, 2;

blades solid; flat, strongly falcate, 5–18 cm × 1–3(4) 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, flattened, slightly 2-edged, 3–7 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.

deciduous with scape; erect; compact, 5–12-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 3–12 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.

7–9 mm;

tepals erect, oblong; more or less equal, white to pale pink with red midribs;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens included;

ovary more or less distinctly crested with 3 or 6 low processes;

stigma unlobed.

=14.