Brodiaea coronaria |
Brodiaea coronaria subsp. rosea |
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bluedick brodiaea, crown brodiaea, Garland brodiaea, harvest brodiaea, harvest cluster-lily |
Indian Valley brodiaea |
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Scape | 4–25 cm, slender. |
4–7 cm. |
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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. |
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Corm | coat thin. |
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2n | = 12. |
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Brodiaea coronaria |
Brodiaea coronaria subsp. rosea |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (late May–Jun). | |||||
Habitat | Grasslands, often on serpentine | |||||
Elevation | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
w North America
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CA |
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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.) |
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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 324. | FNA vol. 26, p. 324. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Brodiaea | Liliaceae > Brodiaea > Brodiaea coronaria | ||||
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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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