General:
Plants fibrous-rooted; roots whitish; bulblets absent.
Leaves:
Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate to narrowly ovate, base gradually to abruptly tapering to the short, broadly winged petiole, entire, surfaces usually glandular-puberulent (at least along the margins) or rarely glabrescent, 3-13 (20) cm.
Flowers:
Inflorescences of 1-7 (10) flowers; involucral bracts lanceolate, glandular-puberulent, 3-10 mm. Flowers long-stalked; corolla tube and throat yellow, with a fine, wavy, reddish ring around the throat; corolla lobes pink (rarely white), 7-25 (35) mm; pollen sacs usually purplish-brown, sometimes yellowish or purple-spotted; calyces green, sometimes purple-speckled, usually glabrous (sometimes glandular), 5-12 mm; filaments usually distinct to their base (sometimes slightly connate), yellow or purplish-spotted to wholly dark purplish-brown; connective purplish-brown, usually with some yellow (at least apically), transversely rugose; stigma not enlarged relative to the style; pedicels glandular-puberulent, 1-5 cm. . Flowering Apr-Jun.
Fruits:
Capsules tan, cylindric, circumcissile, 8-12 mm.
Stems:
Scapes usually glandular-puberulent on the lower portion (rarely entirely glandular), 5-30 cm tall.
Source: The Vascular Flora of British Columbia, draft 2014.
Author: Jamie Fenneman
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Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Source: The Vascular Flora of British Columbia, draft 2014.
Author: Jamie Fenneman