Description
Brodiaea coronaria is a perennial herb growing from a corm and producing an erect inflorescence with a few basal leaves. The inflorescence is up to about 25 centimeters tall and bears lilylike flowers on an array of pedicels. Each flower is a tube several centimeters long opening into a bell-shaped corolla of six bright purple lobes each up to 3 centimeters long. In the center are three stamens and whitish sterile stamens known as staminodes.
- Subspecies
There are two subspecies of this plant. One of them, the Indian Valley brodiaea (Brodiaea coronaria ssp. rosea), is a rare pink-flowered subspecies endemic to a small region in the Inner North Coast Ranges (Tehama, Glenn, and Lake Counties) in northwestern California.
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