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Brodiaea elegans

elegant brodiaea, elegant cluster-lily, harvest brodiaea
Scape

10–50 cm, stout.
Flowers

24–38 mm;

perianth bluish purple to violet, tube funnelform, 8–19 mm, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 15–30 mm;

filaments 4–6 mm, base not triangular;

anthers linear, 4–10 mm, apex rounded;

staminodia erect or slightly recurved distally, distant from stamens, white to pale lilac, broad, equaling stamens, 6–9 mm, margins planate or 1/4 involute, apex rounded;

ovary 9–15 mm;

style 7–15 mm;

pedicel 5–10 cm.

Brodiaea elegans
Distribution
from FNA
CA; w Oreg
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Documentation is needed to verify that this species ranges as far north as Polk County, Oregon, and as far south as San Diego County, California. Most of the plants included in Brodiaea coronaria by W. L. Jepson (1923–1925) have been moved to B. elegans (R. F. Hoover 1939b; T. F. Niehaus 1980; P. A. Munz 1959).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Staminodia erect distally, margins planate and straight; California and sw Oregon.
subsp. elegans
1. Staminodia recurved distally, margins 1/4 involute; Oregon.
subsp. hooveri
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 324.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Brodiaea
Sibling taxa
B. appendiculata, B. californica, B. coronaria, B. filifolia, B. insignis, B. jolonensis, B. kinkiensis, B. minor, B. orcuttii, B. pallida, B. purdyi, B. stellaris, B. terrestris
Subordinate taxa
B. elegans subsp. elegans, B. elegans subsp. hooveri
Name authority Hoover: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 22: 555. (1939)
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