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General:
Perennial herb from an egg-shaped bulb 2-3 cm long, often with bulblets; flowering stems 20-40 cm tall, more or less compressed, 2-edged, smooth.
Leaves:
Basal leaves few to several, linear, erect, 12-35 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, flat to somewhat channelled, glaucous, smooth, the margins entire; stem leaves lacking.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of solitary, terminal, horizontal or drooping to ascending, short-stalked flowers, the stalks 3-10 mm long, issuing from a membranous tubular bract; flowers typically pale yellow, 3-6 cm long, of 6 similar segments fused at the base into a 1- to 2.5-cm long tube that spreads to the oblong or egg-shaped, ascending, wavy or twisted tepals, the trumpet-like crown (the corona, rising from between the segments and the stamens) about as long as the tepals, deep yellow, frilly at the mouth; stamens 6, shorter than the flowers; pistil 1, 3-chambered; ovaries inferior.
Fruits:
Capsules, egg-shaped to nearly globe-shaped, 1-2.5 cm long; seeds several to many.
Notes:
Probably not truly naturalized, but long persisting and multiplying vegetatively by bulblets. Most of the plants found apparently naturalized in BC are probably hybrids or cultivated forms of this species and not the wild species itself.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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