General:
Perennial herb from a deep, straw-coloured, fibrous-scaly, nearly globe-shaped, bulb-like corm; flowering stems erect, 20-50 cm tall, slender, smooth.

Leaves:
Basal leaves 1 or 2, linear, keeled, 10-40 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, smooth, sheathing at the base, the margins entire; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a compact, terminal umbel of several erect to ascending, more or less equally stalked flowers, above several membranous bracts, the stalks 0.5-3 cm long; flowers whitish to blue, vase-shaped to narrowly bell-shaped, of 6 fused segments, 1.5-2 cm long; corolla lobes in 2 petal-like whorls, about as long as the tubes, spreading, the outer 3 broadly lanceolate, the inner 3 oblong-egg-shaped, slightly ruffled; stamens 6, the filaments flattened; pistil 1, 3-chambered.

Fruits:
Capsules, egg-shaped, stalked; seeds rounded, black.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia