Bulb scales: large 2-8; small 0-3. Stem 1-4 dm. Leaves 2-10, alternate, ± crowded near ground, 2.5-10 cm; blade ovate, occasionally a few sickle-shaped. Flowers horizontal or nodding; tepals white, with purple spots or lines and pink shading, 1.5-3 cm, apex often slightly recurved; nectaries obscure, colored like tepals, broadly linear, ± equaling tepal length; style obviously branched for 1/2 its length, branches longer than 1.5 mm. Capsules acutely angled. 2n = 24.

Flowering Apr--Jun. Dry ridges, generally on serpentine; 400--2100 m; Calif., Oreg.