OregonFlora species comparison

5–20+; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing renewal bulbs; more or less translucent, obscurely cellular-reticulate; thin, membranous; meshes delicate;

cells vertically elongate, contorted; without fibers.

1–12+, not basally clustered; ovoid to more or less globose;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more renewal bulbs, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous;

cells square or polygonal;

walls thick, obscurely sinuous; without fibers.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3;

blades solid; flat, not falcate; more or less keeled, 15–50 cm × 3–15 mm;

margins entire.

persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2–3;

blades solid, subterete or more or less channeled, 7–30 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent, clustered; erect; solid, sharply 3-angled, 10–40 cm × 1–10 mm.

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, 10–35 cm × 1–3 mm.

persistent; lax; loose, 3–15-flowered; more or less 1-sided;

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

persistent; erect; loose, 10–40-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 6–25 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

becoming pendent, 10–18 mm;

tepals erect to spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal, white with prominent green midrib;

margins entire;

apex acute;

stamens included;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

8–15 mm;

tepals erect, lanceolate to lance-ovate, unequal, pink to rose-purple or white, becoming rigid and keeled in fruit;

margins finely denticulate (inner tepals more prominently so);

apex acuminate;

outer tepals longer and wider than inner, spreading to recurved at tip;

inner tepals with strongly recurved tips;

stamens included;

ovary obscurely crested with 3 minute, 2-lobed processes;

stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, obscurely 3-lobed.

=18.