Brodiaea appendiculata |
Brodiaea coronaria |
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appendage brodiaea, Hoover's brodiaea |
bluedick brodiaea, crown brodiaea, Garland brodiaea, harvest brodiaea, harvest cluster-lily |
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Scape | 10–45 cm, stout. |
4–25 cm, slender. |
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Flowers | 24–38 mm; perianth violet purple, tube cylindrical, 8–12 mm, translucent, splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 15–22 mm, usually less than twice length of tube; filaments 4–7 mm, base not triangular, with 2 threadlike, forked appendages; anthers obcordate, 3–6 mm, apex hooked; staminodia erect, usually white, narrowly linear, 8–15 mm, margins 1/2 involute, wavy, apex rounded; ovary 5–6 mm; style 9–12 mm; pedicel 4–10 cm. |
24–38 mm; perianth bluish violet, bluish purple, rosy purple, or rose, tube ovoid to campanulate, 6–13 cm, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 12–25 mm; filaments 3–4 mm, base dilated to form triangular flap; anthers linear, 5–7 mm, apex hooked or rounded; staminodia curving inward toward stamens overall but curving outward at apex, white or pink, broad, 10–11 mm, margins 3/4 involute, apex rounded; ovary 6–9 mm; style 6–11 mm; pedicel 1–5 cm. |
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2n | = 12. |
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Brodiaea appendiculata |
Brodiaea coronaria |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Apr–May). | |||||
Habitat | Grasslands, open woodlands, gravelly clay soils | |||||
Elevation | 0–600 m (0–2000 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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w North America
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Discussion | This uncommon species is found at low altitudes in the Sierra foothills of central and northern California, usually in stony, red clay soils that become baked very hard during the flowering season. It is rare or extirpated from coast-range foothills. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Most of the plants that W. L. Jepson (1923–1925) placed under this name have been transferred to Brodiaea elegans (T. F. Niehaus 1971, 1980). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 322. | FNA vol. 26, p. 324. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Brodiaea | Liliaceae > Brodiaea | ||||
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Synonyms | Hookera coronaria | |||||
Name authority | Hoover: Madroño 4: 130, fig. 1. (1937) | (Salisbury) Engler: Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 317. (1899) | ||||
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