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elegant brodiaea, elegant cluster-lily, harvest brodiaea

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Hoover's 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.

perianth tube 13–17 mm, lobes 22–30 mm;

anthers 6–8 mm;

staminodia slightly recurved distally, margins 1/4 involute;

ovary 9–11 mm;

style 12–15 mm.

2n

= 40.

Brodiaea elegans

Brodiaea elegans subsp. hooveri

Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Grasslands
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; w Oreg
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from FNA
OR
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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.)

Subspecies hooveri occurs primarily in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Documentation of occurrence in northern California is lacking.

(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. FNA vol. 26, p. 325.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Brodiaea Liliaceae > Brodiaea > Brodiaea elegans
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
B. elegans subsp. elegans
Subordinate taxa
B. elegans subsp. elegans, B. elegans subsp. hooveri
Name authority Hoover: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 22: 555. (1939) T. F. Niehaus: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 60: 48, fig. 12a–d. (1971)
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