OregonFlora species comparison

fibrous;

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

fleshy;

rhizomes homogeneous; many-branched.

unbranched.

branched.

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.

unifacial; sword-shaped, 3.5 cm wide, forming an obvious fan.

1(2)-flowered;

bracts opposite, closed; broad.

1–3-flowered;

bracts green, sometimes with a purple base.

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.

perianth blue-violet, yellow, brown, or white with various patterns of color;

sepals with beard along midrib of claw and lower part of limb;

petals erect.

round in cross section.

roundly 3-lobed.

dark brown, sharply angled, wrinkled and pitted.

red-brown, wrinkled.

=40.