Brodiaea elegans
Brodiaea elegans | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Asparagaceae |
Subfamily: | Brodiaeoideae |
Genus: | Brodiaea |
Species: | B. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Brodiaea elegans | |
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Brodiaea elegans is a species of flowering plant in the cluster-lily genus known by the common names harvest brodiaea, elegant brodiaea, and elegant cluster-lily.
The bulb is native to the mountain ranges of California and Oregon, where it grows in woodlands and meadows.
Description
Brodiaea elegans is a perennial that produces a stout stemlike inflorescence up to 50 centimeters tall. It bears showy flowers on pedicels up to 10 centimeters long.
Each flower has six curving tepals up to 3 centimeters long in shades of bright purple. In the center of the flower are white or pale purple sterile stamens known as staminodes; these are flat with pointed or toothed tips and between one half and one centimeter in length. Next to these are the fertile stamens topped with large anthers.
In Northern California, Brodiaea elegans is one of the later blooming wildflowers, often seen in May.
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External links
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- Jepson Manual Treatment
- USDA Plants Profile
- Flora of North America
- Coe State Park Photos
- Photo gallery
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Commons category link is on Wikidata
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- Brodiaea
- Flora of California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Plants described in 1939
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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