OregonFlora species comparison

solitary, replaced annually by new bulbs borne terminally on secondary rhizome;

rhizomes 1–3, conspicuous; to 5 cm; smooth, parent bulbs disappearing by anthesis except for still-functional roots and bulb coat; ovoid to oblique-ovoid;

outer coats not enclosing bulbs, delicately cellular-reticulate, membranous;

cells more or less rectangular; without fibers.

persistent, green or withering from tip at anthesis, 2–3;

blades solid, flattened, sometimes carinate, keeled dorsally; more or less falcate, 18–50 cm × 4–10 mm;

margins entire.

persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, 20–80 cm × 2–7 mm.

persistent; erect; loose, 15–35-flowered, hemispheric;

pedicels 15–40 mm;

spathe bracts 2.

11–15 mm;

tepals spreading, obovate to ovate, unequal, bright pink or rarely white;

apex acute to obtuse or emarginate; inner shorter and narrower than outer;

stamens included;

ovary crestless;

stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed.

=14.