The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

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

San Clemente Island brodiaea

Scape

4–25 cm, slender.

2–3 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.

14–24 mm;

perianth purple or violet, tube narrowly campanulate, 9–12 mm, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes widely spreading, 12–18 mm, inner round, with widely rounded apex;

filaments 1.5–2 mm, base not triangular, with narrow abaxial wings;

anthers linear, 4–7 mm, apex widely notched;

staminodia erect, held away from stamens, broad, 3–7 mm, margins linear, apex cuspidate;

ovary 6–9 mm;

style 5–7 mm;

pedicel 1–4 cm.

2n

= 32.

Brodiaea coronaria

Brodiaea kinkiensis

Phenology Flowering spring (May–Jun).
Habitat Grasslands on clay flats
Elevation 100–200 m (300–700 ft)
Distribution
from USDA
w North America
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
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.)

Of conservation concern.

Brodiaea kinkiensis is endemic to the mesa tops of San Clemente Island. It is the only single-leaved Brodiaea. 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. 326.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Brodiaea 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
B. appendiculata, B. californica, B. coronaria, B. elegans, B. filifolia, B. insignis, B. jolonensis, 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) T. F. Niehaus: Madroño 18: 233, fig. 1. (1966)
Web links