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mountain pretty face, pretty face, Sierra-brodiaea

Leaves

1–2, 10–25 cm.

Scape

shorter than 30 cm, smooth or scabrous.

Flowers

perianth yellow, tube 4–7 mm, much shorter than lobes, lobes widely spreading, 7–12 mm; short filaments 1–2 mm or nearly absent, long filaments 3–3.5 mm, apical appendages straight, spreading, or incurved, short;

anthers usually blue, sometimes cream;

pedicel 1–7 cm.

2n

= 10, 14, 40, 42, 50. 

Triteleia ixioides subsp. anilina

Phenology Flowering spring (May–Jul).
Habitat Coniferous forest edges, often in moist gravel or sand
Elevation 600–3000 m (2000–9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies anilina might be considered a reduced, “high-altitude” form of subsp. scabra, but although it reaches an elevation of 3000 meters, it is sometimes found in the chaparral belt as low as 600 meters, while subsp. scabra extends as high as 2200 meters.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 26.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Triteleia > Triteleia ixioides
Sibling taxa
T. ixioides subsp. cookii, T. ixioides subsp. ixioides, T. ixioides subsp. scabra, T. ixioides subsp. unifolia
Synonyms Calliprora scabra var. anilina, Brodiaea lutea var. anilina, Brodiaea scabra var. anilina, Calliprora anilina, T. anilina, T. ixioides var. anilina
Name authority (Greene) L. W. Lenz: Aliso 8: 233. (1975)
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