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FNA | Family List | FNA Vol. 26 | Liliaceae | Brodiaea

14. Brodiaea terrestris Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 6. 1859 (as terrestria).

Dwarf brodiaea

Hookera terrestris (Kellogg) Britten ex Greene

Scape 0.5–20 cm, slender. Flowers 16–33 mm; perianth pinkish purple or rose, tube narrowly campanulate, 6–13 mm, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 10–20 mm; filaments 2–3 mm, base dilated to form triangular flap; anthers linear, 3–6 mm, apex separated; staminodia leaning inward slightly but held away from stamens, violet to whitish, broad, 4–5 mm, margins 1/4 involute, apex broad, slightly hooded, 2-notched; ovary 7–9 mm; style 4–9 mm; pedicel 1–15 cm.

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora): California, s Oregon.


1 Scape 0.5–7 cm; flowers 16–25 mm; pedicel 3–15 cm; leaves lunate in cross section.   14a subsp. terrestris
+ Scape 2–20 cm; flowers 26–33 mm; pedicel 1–7 cm; leaves not very lunate in cross section.   14b subsp. kernensis


 

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