OregonFlora species comparison

fibrous;

rhizomes slender, freely branching, covered with leaf bases that form dense clumps.

unbranched.

evergreen;

basal leaves narrow, 2–4 mm wide; grass-like; longer than flowering stem, dark green and glossy, pink or purple basally;

cauline leaves 2–4, spreading.

1(2)-flowered;

bracts opposite, closed; broad.

usually dark golden yellow, sometimes cream, pink, lavender, or purple, usually heavily veined purple or brown;

floral tube slender, 15–30 mm;

style tips rounded, reflexed, overlapping;

stigmas triangular.

round in cross section.

dark brown, sharply angled, wrinkled and pitted.

=40.