OregonFlora species comparison

2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate;

cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous.

underground or erect, scapose or leafy.

persistent, usually green at anthesis, usually 3–5;

blades solid; more or less straight; flat, channeled; (6)12– 30 cm × 1–3(5) mm.

1–many;

basal; cauline, or both, alternate, subopposite, or whorled, linear to ovate or square-shaped;

petioles short or absent.

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

solitary; panicles; racemes, or umbels.

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.

(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.

radially symmetrical; erect or pendent;

perianth segments 6; distinct; in 2 petal-like whorls;

stamens 3 or 6;

ovary superior;

style 1;

stigmas entire or 3-lobed.

capsules or berries.

flat or angled.