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, producing cluster of stalked basal bulbils above roots or filiform rhizomes to 10 cm and terminated by bulbils; ovoid;

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

cells more or less quadrate;

walls very 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;

blades solid; flat, distinctly concave-convex, 8–40 cm × 1–5 mm.

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

persistent; solitary or clustered, 1–3; erect; solid; terete, 10–30 cm × 1–5 mm.

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

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

persistent; erect; loose, 10–50-flowered; more or less globose;

pedicels 10–20 mm, becoming flexuous and mostly strongly deflexed in fruit;

spathe bracts 2–3.

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.

5–8 mm;

tepals spreading, lanceolate to ovate; more or less equal; rose to purple (rarely white) with darker purple basal crescent on ventral side, keeled in fruit, becoming erect; more or less shiny; rigid;

margins entire;

apex acuminate, strongly involute at tip;

stamens included;

ovary crested with 6 prominent processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=18.

=14, 28.