OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

solitary, replaced annually by new bulbs borne terminally on secondary rhizome;

rhizomes 1–3, conspicuous; to 5 cm; smooth, parent bulbs disappearing by anthesis except for still-functional roots and bulb coat; ovoid to oblique-ovoid;

outer coats not enclosing bulbs, delicately cellular-reticulate, membranous;

cells more or less rectangular; 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 or withering from tip at anthesis, 2–3;

blades solid, flattened, sometimes carinate, keeled dorsally; more or less falcate, 18–50 cm × 4–10 mm;

margins entire.

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

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, 20–80 cm × 2–7 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; loose, 15–35-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 15–40 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.

11–15 mm;

tepals spreading, obovate to ovate, unequal, bright pink or rarely white;

apex acute to obtuse or emarginate; inner shorter and narrower than outer;

stamens included;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed.

=14.