General:
Perennial herb from a deep, straw-coloured, fibrous-scaly, nearly globe-shaped, bulb-like corm; flowering stems erect, 20-70 cm tall, slender, smooth.

Leaves:
Basal leaves 1 to 3, linear, keeled, 20-50 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, smooth, sheathing at the base, the margins entire; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a compact to open, terminal umbel of 5 to 20, erect to ascending, more or less equally stalked flowers, above several membranous bracts, the stalks 0.5-4 cm long; flowers light- to deep blue to whitish, vase-shaped to narrowly bell- or top-shaped, of 6 fused segments, 1.5-2.5 cm long; corolla lobes in two petal-like whorls, nearly equalling to longer than the tubes, spreading, the outer 3 narrowly egg-shaped to lanceolate, the inner 3 wider, ruffled; stamens 6; pistil 1, 3-chambered.

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

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Flower Colour:
Blue

Blooming Period:
Mid Spring

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present over the Spring

Source:  The USDA