Bulbs narrowly ovoid, 35-50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. Leaves 10-25 mm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. Scape 15-40 cm. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered. Flowers: tepals uniformly clear violet-pink at anthesis, with yellow banding at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25-40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens ± appressed to style, 12-22 mm; filaments white to pink (darkening with age), flattened, ± lanceolate, 2-3 mm wide; anthers bright yellow; style white to pink, 12-18 mm; stigma with slender recurved lobes 4-6 mm. Capsules oblong to obovoid, 3-6 cm.

Flowering early spring (Mar--Apr). Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests; 0--600(--1000) m; B.C.; Calif., Oreg., Wash., generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast.