Asparagus Family – Asparagaceae
Actual flower size: 1 inch long
Howell’s Brodiaea is also called Bi-colored Cluster Lily or Bicolor Triteleia. Other Latin names include Brodiaea howellii and Triteleia howellii.
Plant Description: Howell’s Brodiaea is a perennial, 8 to 30 inch tall, with a loose head of 5 to 20 flowers. The 2 or 3 grass-like leaves are green at flowering, 4 to 16 inches long, and have a ridge down the back side.
Flower Description: The flower is a tube about 1 inch long with 6 wavy-edged (not ruffled) tepals, white with blue mid-veins or blue with darker mid-veins. There are 6 fertile stamen with broad anthers on flat filaments, all attached at the same level, but of unequal lengths.
Ecology: Howell’s Brodiaea grows on coastal bluffs and prairies and the shrub steppes of eastern Washington.
Note: Howell’s Brodiaea has been moved from the Lily Family to the Asparagus Family. See “APG Changes” page.
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