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.

2–20+, clustered on thick; iris-like rhizome, elongate;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous, minutely striate;

cells in regular vertical rows, elongate, not fibrous-reticulate; fibers persistent; parallel; few; coarse.

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, 3–6;

blades solid; flat, 20–70(80) cm × 4–15 mm.

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

persistent; solitary; erect; solid, flattened and narrowly winged distally, 30–70 cm × 2–7 mm.

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

pedicels 15–25 mm;

spathe bracts 1–2.

persistent; erect; compact, 15–30-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 10–15 mm, elongating and becoming stout in fruit;

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.

8–10 mm;

tepals erect to more or less spreading, narrowly lanceolate; more or less equal, pink;

margins entire;

apex acuminate; midribs scarcely thickened;

stamens exserted;

ovary crestless;

stigma unlobed.

=18.

=28, 56.