Brodiaea coronaria

Brodiaea coronaria is the type species of Brodiaea^[5] and also known by the common name crown brodiaea.^[3] It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern California, where it grows in mountains and grasslands.

Description

Brodiaea coronaria is a perennial herb growing from a corm and producing an erect inflorescence with a few basal leaves. The inflorescence is up to about 25 centimeters tall and bears lilylike flowers on an array of pedicels. Each flower is a tube several centimeters long opening into a bell-shaped corolla of six bright purple lobes each up to 3 centimeters long. In the center are three stamens and whitish sterile stamens known as staminodes.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of this plant. One of them, the Indian Valley brodiaea (Brodiaea coronaria ssp. rosea), is a rare pink-flowered subspecies endemic to a small region in the Inner North Coast Ranges (Tehama, Glenn, and Lake Counties) in northwestern California.^[6]

Taxonomy

It was first collected by Archibald Menzies during the Vancouver Expedition, and published as Hookera coronaria by Richard Salisbury in his Paradisus Londinensis in 1808.^[2] In 1811, James Edward Smith recognised it as belonging to a separate genus, and segregated it into Brodiaea as Brodiaea grandiflora.^[7] Smith's genus was accepted, but the priority of Salisbury's specific epithet was also recognised, hence the current name.

References

External links

Works related to Characters of a new Liliaceous Genus called Brodiaea at Wikisource

Data related to Brodiaea coronaria at Wikispecies

• "Brodiaea coronaria (Salisb.) Engl.". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=42803. Retrieved 28 June 2008. 
• Jepson Manual Treatment - Brodiaea coronaria
• Brodiaea coronaria - U.C.Cal.Photos gallery
• Weathers, John (1901). "Classification of Plants". A Practical Guide to Garden Plants: Containing Descriptions of the Hardiest and Most Beautiful Annuals and Biennials Hardy Herbaceous and Bulbous Perennials, Hardy Water and Bog Plants, Flowering and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Conifers; Hardy Ferns; Hardy Bamboos and Other Ornamental Grasses also the Best Kinds of Fruit and Vegetables That May be Grown in the Open Air in the British Islands with Full and Practical Instructions as to Culture and Propagation. Longmans, Green, and Co.. pp. 1192 pages. http://books.google.com/books?id=aAEDAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA828&lpg=RA2-PA828. Retrieved 2008-06-28. 
• Bailey, Liberty Hyde; Wilhelm Miller (1900). "Brodiaea". Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation of Horticultural Plants, Descriptions of the Species of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Ornamental Plants Sold in the United States and Canada, Together with Geographical and Biographical Sketches (Volume 1 A-D ed.). The Macmillan Company. http://books.google.com/books?id=AzdJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182. Retrieved 2008-06-28. 
• LeRoy, Abrams; Roxana Stinchfield Ferris (1923). "LILY FAMILY". An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. Stanford University Press. pp. 1192 pages. ISBN 0804700036. http://books.google.com/books?id=gPKuru78EsIC&pg=PA405&lpg=PA405. Retrieved 2008-06-28.