Blue Funnel Lily

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Blue Funnel Lily

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Androstephium
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Species

See text.
Blue Funnel Lily Fruit
Blue Funnel Lily Fruit

Androstephium caeruleum, is also known as the Blue Funnel Lily. A perennial herb found the United States, ranging through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. It disperses its seed 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.
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