OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

1 or more, clustered; short-rhizomatous at base, cylindric, elongate;

outer coats enclosing bulbs, persisting as fibrous reticulum but often appearing membranous because outer coats are often not collected;

cells minutely striate.

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, usually 2;

blades hollow; terete, 20–60 cm × 2–7 mm.

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

persistent, 2–12+, clustered; erect; terete; hollow, 20–50 cm × 3–5 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; compact, 30–50-flowered; more or less subglobose;

pedicels 2–6 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.

8–12 mm;

tepals erect, elliptic to lanceolate; more or less equal, pale purple to deep lilac, drying pink, or white, permanently enclosing capsule;

margins entire;

apex acute to acuminate;

tips more or less recurved; midribs not thickened;

stamens included;

ovary crestless;

stigma unlobed or obscurely lobed.

=16.