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

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Indian Valley brodiaea

Scape

4–25 cm, slender.

4–7 cm.

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.

perianth rosy purple or rose, tube 7–9 cm, lobes 12–18 mm;

anther apex rounded;

staminodia white to pink;

ovary 6–8 mm;

style 6–8 mm.

Corm

coat thin.

2n

= 12.

Brodiaea coronaria

Brodiaea coronaria subsp. rosea

Phenology Flowering spring (late May–Jun).
Habitat Grasslands, often on serpentine
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from USDA
w North America
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from FNA
CA
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.)

This is a rare taxon known only from three localities in the northern Coast Ranges of California. It is in cultivation.

(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. FNA vol. 26, p. 324.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Brodiaea Liliaceae > Brodiaea > Brodiaea coronaria
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
B. coronaria subsp. coronaria
Subordinate taxa
B. coronaria subsp. coronaria, B. coronaria subsp. rosea
Synonyms Hookera coronaria Hookera rosea, B. coronaria var. rosea, B. rosea
Name authority (Salisbury) Engler: Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 317. (1899) (Greene) T. F. Niehaus: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 60: 41. (1971)
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