OregonFlora species comparison

1–5+; ovoid; renewal bulbs formed within coats of parent bulb; more or less equaling parent bulbs;

outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows adjacent to roots; more or less quadrate; without fibers.

usually deciduous with scape, withering from tip at anthesis, 2;

blades solid; flat, falcate, 10–30 cm × (6)8–18 mm.

usually forming abscission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature; solitary; erect; solid, strongly flattened, winged distally, 7–25 cm × 2–7 mm.

persistent; erect; loose, 30–90-flowered, globose;

pedicels 10–25 mm;

spathe bracts 2–5.

8–15 mm;

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

margins entire;

apex long-acuminate;

stamens exserted;

anthers yellow;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed.

=14.