Bulbs rhizomatous, sometimes irregular, unbranched, continuously scaly, 1.8–4.3 × 2.1–9.9 cm, 0.3–0.7 times taller than long; scales 1–2(–3)-segmented, longest 0.9–2.5 cm; stem roots absent. Stems to 2.2 m. Buds rounded in cross section. Leaves scattered or in 1–9 whorls or partial whorls, 3–19 leaves per whorl, horizontal and drooping at tips to ascending, 4.1–26.3 × 0.4–3 cm, 4–29 times longer than wide; blade elliptic to linear, occasionally narrowly lanceolate, sometimes narrowly or weakly oblanceolate, margins not undulate, apex narrowly acute; veins and margins ± smooth abaxially. Inflorescences racemose, 1–35-flowered. Flowers pendent, not fragrant; perianth Turk’s-cap-shaped; sepals and petals reflexed 2/5 along length from base, yellow, greenish yellow, or green proximally (and usually forming a green star), sometimes with an intercalary band of orange or yellow, then red-orange to red to maroon or very rarely orange on distal 1/2–2/3, maroon, dark purple, or rarely blackish spots concentrated proximally and rarely extending into distal reddish zone, conspicuously green abaxially on proximal 2/5–1/2, not distinctly clawed; sepals not ridged abaxially, 4.4–8.1 × 0.8–1.8 cm; petals 4.3–8 × 0.8–1.6 cm; stamens moderately exserted; filaments ± parallel to style, barely spreading, diverging 4°–12° from axis; anthers dull red, dull purple, or magenta, 0.5–1.4 cm; pollen rust or red-orange, occasionally orange or orange-brown to red-brown; pistil 3–5.5 cm; ovary 1–2 cm; style green, sometimes purple distally; pedicel 5–29.7 cm. Capsules 2.1–5.4 × 1–1.9 cm, 1.4–3.1 times longer than wide. Seeds 141–207. 2n = 24.
Coastal scrub, coastal prairies, gaps in coastal coniferous forests especially with Sitka spruce(Picea sitchensis), Sphag-num bogs and marshes in northern part of range; at elevations up to 100 metres.
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