OregonFlora species comparison

fleshy;

rhizomes pink, freely branching, producing extensive clumps with remains of old leaves.

fleshy;

rhizomes homogeneous; many-branched.

usually 1-branched.

branched.

deciduous; stiff; erect at first then recurved;

blades dark green with prominent median thickening, 20–30 mm wide;

cauline leaves equal in height to inflorescence.

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

4–12-flowered;

bracts subequal, green with brown margins; outer bract strongly keeled.

1–3-flowered;

bracts green, sometimes with a purple base.

perianth bright yellow or cream; signal a darker yellow basal patch delimited by short, brown lines;

petals without veining;

tube 12–13 mm;

stigmas rounded with prominent tongue.

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.

angled, with obvious groove at each angle.

roundly 3-lobed.

D-shaped, flattened; corky, lustrous.

red-brown, wrinkled.

=24, 30, 32, 34.