Triteleia crocea
| Triteleia crocea | |
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| Triteleia crocea var. crocea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Brodiaeoideae |
| Genus: | Triteleia |
| Species: | T. crocea |
| Binomial name | |
| Triteleia crocea (Alph.Wood) Greene | |
Triteleia crocea, the yellow tripletlily or yellow triteleia, is a monocot flowering plant in the genus Triteleia. It is native to southern Oregon and northern California, where it occurs in mountain ranges such as the Klamath Mountains and the southernmost slopes of the Cascade Range. Its habitat includes mountain forests. This is a perennial herb growing from a corm. It produces two or three leaves up to 40 centimeters long by one wide. The inflorescence arises on an erect stem up to 30 centimeters tall. It is an umbel-like cluster of many flowers each borne on a slender pedicel. The flowers are usually bright yellow but some specimens from the Trinity Mountains have light blue corollas.[1] They may have green stripes. The corolla has six lobes one half to one centimeter long and six stamens with yellow or blue anthers.
Varieties include Triteleia crocea var. crocea and Triteleia crocea var. modesta.
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