Blue Funnel Lily
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Androstephium caeruleum, is also known as the Blue Funnel Lily. A perennial herb, it is found the United States of America, in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Seed dispersal is by wind.
- Species
- Androstephium caeruleum (Scheele) Greene Blue Funnel Lily.
- Androstephium breviflorum S. Wats. Pink Funnel Lily.
[edit] Cultivation and uses
The species is uncommon in its habitat, black soil praire. The corm was once eaten in West Texas.
[edit] References
- Kelly Kindscher (1987), Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, pgs 43-45.
