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Brodiaea coronaria

bluedick brodiaea, crown brodiaea, Garland brodiaea, harvest brodiaea, harvest cluster-lily
Scape

4–25 cm, slender.
Flowers

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.

Brodiaea coronaria
Distribution
from USDA
w North America
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Discussion

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.)
Key
1. Perianth bluish violet or bluish purple; corm coat heavily fibrous; nw United States, British Columbia.
subsp. coronaria
1. Perianth rosy purple or rose; corm coat thin; only in California Coast Ranges.
subsp. rosea
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 324.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Brodiaea
Sibling taxa
B. appendiculata, B. californica, B. elegans, B. filifolia, B. insignis, B. jolonensis, B. kinkiensis, B. minor, B. orcuttii, B. pallida, B. purdyi, B. stellaris, B. terrestris
Subordinate taxa
B. coronaria subsp. coronaria, B. coronaria subsp. rosea
Synonyms Hookera coronaria
Name authority (Salisbury) Engler: Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 317. (1899)
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