White Brodiaea / Hyacinth Brodiaea (Triteleia hyacinthina)

7/4/05 Meadow off Mill Creek, approximately 5 miles up County Road 64 (Jess Valley Road) from Likely. South Warner Wilderness, Modoc National Forest, Modoc County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: White Brodiaea / Hyacinth Brodiaea 

SPECIES: Tritileia hyacinthina

FAMILY: Themidaceae (Brodiaea Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 7/4/2005

LOCATION: Meadow off Mill Creek, approximately 5 miles up County Road 64 (Jess Valley Road) from Likely. South Warner Wilderness, Modoc National Forest, Modoc County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Leaf 10–40 cm, 4–22 mm wide

Inflorescence 30–60 cm, smooth to scabrous; pedicels 5–50 mm

Flower: perianth white, sometimes flushed purple outside, tube 2–4 mm, shallowly bowl-shaped, lobes ascending to spreading, 7–12 mm; filaments 2–4 mm, bases wider, anthers 1–2 mm, whitish; ovary stalk 1/2 ovary length

Ecology: Grassland, vernally wet meadows

Elevation: 0–2000 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Great Central Valley, n&c Central Western California 

Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Idaho

Synonyms: Brodiaea h. (Lindl.) Baker 

Horticultural information: DRN, SUN, DRY in summer: