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.

1–3+; variable; some poorly developed; others ovoid with 1–2 large bulbs and several bulbils at base;

outer coat enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3;

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

margins entire.

withering from tips by anthesis, 6–9;

blades solid; flat, channeled, 1–5 × 2–20(30) mm.

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

persistent; solitary; erect; hollow; terete, 45–180 cm × 3–7 mm.

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

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

persistent; erect; compact; to 500-flowered; few-flowered in variants with bulbils, globose;

pedicels 15–50 mm;

spathe bracts 3–5.

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.

4–5.5 mm;

tepals erect, white, pink, or dark red;

outer tepals oblong-lanceolate;

margins entire;

apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate;

inner tepals narrowly ovate to spatulate;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens equaling perianth or exserted;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=18.