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 or more, clustered; short-rhizomatous at base, cylindric, elongate;

outer coats enclosing bulbs, persisting as fibrous reticulum but often appearing membranous because outer coats are often not collected;

cells minutely striate.

persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3;

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

margins entire.

persistent, green at anthesis, usually 2;

blades hollow; terete, 20–60 cm × 2–7 mm.

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

persistent, 2–12+, clustered; erect; terete; hollow, 20–50 cm × 3–5 mm.

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

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

persistent; erect; compact, 30–50-flowered; more or less subglobose;

pedicels 2–6 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.

8–12 mm;

tepals erect, elliptic to lanceolate; more or less equal, pale purple to deep lilac, drying pink, or white, permanently enclosing capsule;

margins entire;

apex acute to acuminate;

tips more or less recurved; midribs not thickened;

stamens included;

ovary crestless;

stigma unlobed or obscurely lobed.

=18.

=16.