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.

5–20, clustered, stipitate; hard-shelled, asymmetric; ovoid;

outer coats enclosing bulbs, membranous, vertically striate, splitting into parallel strips and fibers, cellular reticulations vertical, arranged in more or less wavy rows.

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, 2–4;

blades hollow below middle; terete, cylindric or filiform, not carinate, 20–60 cm × 2–4 mm.

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

persistent; solitary; erect; terete, 30–120 cm × 1.5–4 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, 0–50-flowered, subglobose to ovoid or hemispheric, flowering pedicels all or in part replaced by bulbils; bulbils sessile, basally narrowed, 4–6 × 2–3 mm;

pedicels 10–20 mm at flowering;

spathe bract 1.

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.

3–4 mm;

tepals erect, elliptic-lanceolate; more or less equal; greenish to purple;

margins entire;

apex obtuse;

stamens exserted;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=18.

=32, 40.