Triteleia ixioides subsp. anilina
Triteleia ixioides subsp. ixioides
mountain pretty face, pretty face, Sierra-brodiaea
golden-brodiaea
1–2, 10–25 cm.
1–2, 10–40 cm.
shorter than 30 cm, smooth or scabrous.
20–80 cm, smooth or scabrous.
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.
perianth yellow, tube 7–10 mm, much shorter than lobes, lobes spreading, 10–15 mm; short filaments 3 mm, long filaments 4–5.5 mm, apical appendages long, slender, often recurving;
anthers cream or yellow, occasionally blue;
pedicel 1–7 cm.
= 10, 14, 40, 42, 50.
= 14.
Triteleia ixioides subsp. anilina
Triteleia ixioides subsp. ixioides
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.)
Subspecies ixioides occurs in coastal California, sometimes on serpentine (San Mateo to San Luis Obispo counties). In the past it hybridized with Triteleia hyacinthina in Monterey to produce T. ×versicolor Hoover, which probably is extinct due to successional changes.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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