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; ovoid to subglobose;

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

cells in more or less regular vertical rows, narrowly rectangular, transversely elongate; 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.

usually deciduous with scape, green or withering only at tip at anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat, falcate, 9–18 cm × 2–5 mm.

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

usually forming abscission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature; solitary; erect; solid; more or less flattened, sometimes slightly winged, 3–10 cm × 1–2 mm.

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

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

persistent; erect; more or less compact, 6–20-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 5–11 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.

6–13 mm;

tepals erect, oblong-lanceolate; more or less equal, white to pinkish with narrow to very broad, purple midvein;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens included;

ovary crested with 3 low processes;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=18.

=14.