UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves linear, concave-convex, reduced upward, becoming strongly involute and curled at the tip.

Basal leaf flat, 2-3 dm. long and 5-10 mm. broad, shorter than the inflorescence;

cauline leaf nearly basal, with a bulblet in the axil.

Umbels 1-3 flowered;

flowers large, lavender to white, erect, each petal with a median green stripe;

sepals 3, longer than the petals, narrowly lanceolate, pointed;

petals 3, obovate, moderately bearded above the gland;

gland triangular-oblong, surrounded with a broad, fringed membrane, and densely covered with slender processes;

stamens 6, style tapered, stigma trifid, persistent.

Umbel 1-3 flowered;

flowers lavender-pink, with a deep purplish-red band on each petal just above the gland, erect on slender pedicels;

sepals 3, shorter than the petals, lanceolate, pointed, glabrous;

petals 3, broadly obovate, wedge-shaped;

gland transversely oblong, the surface naked, bordered below with a broad, deeply fringed membrane and above with a band of short, thick processes;

stamens 6, in 2 series;

style short, stigma trifid, persistent.

Capsule linear-lanceolate, 3-angled, pointed.

Capsule nearly orbicular, 3-winged, erect.