OregonFlora species comparison

1–5+; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous; more or less reticulate;

cells quadrate to polygonal, vertically oblong; without fibers.

2–5+, clustered, often short-rhizomatous at base, oblong, elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous, minutely striate, cellular-reticulate;

cells in regular vertical rows, narrowly elongate; fibers persistent; parallel; few.

usually persistent, withering from tip at anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat or more or less channeled, falcate, 12–25 cm × 2–3 mm.

persistent, green at anthesis, 3–5;

blades solid; flat, channeled to broadly V-shaped in cross section, 10–25 cm × 1–6 mm.

persistent, 1–3; erect; solid; terete or somewhat flattened, 2-edged, not expanded proximal to inflorescence, 15–30 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent, sometimes 2 or more produced successively from single bulb, usually clustered, nodding; solid; terete or ridged, particularly distally, sometimes flattened and narrowly winged, abruptly recurved near apex, 10–50 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent; erect; compact, 10–30-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 8–12 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

persistent, nodding; loose, 8–35-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 6–25 mm, becoming stouter in fruit, elongating and bending abruptly upward from near point of attachment;

spathe bracts 2.

6–8 mm;

tepals spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal; rose-colored;

margins entire;

apex acuminate;

stamens more or less equaling tepals, or exserted;

ovary distinctly crested with 6 low processes;

stigma unlobed.

4–6 mm;

tepals more or less erect, elliptic-ovate; more or less equal, pink or white;

margins more or less entire;

apex more or less obtuse; at least outer tepals strongly incurved; midribs not thickened;

stamens exserted;

ovary conspicuously crested with 6 triangular processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.

=14.