Triteleia laxa
Triteleia laxa subsp. var. | Grassnut, Triplet lily, Ithuriel's spear | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Triteleia laxa (previously Brodiaea laxa) is a triplet lily known by several common names, including Ithuriel's spear and grassnut. It is native to California where it is a common wildflower, and it is occasionally found in Oregon. It bears a tall, naked stem topped with a spray of smaller stalks, each ending in a purple or blue flower. The flower is tubular, opening into a sharply six-pointed star. The plant grows from a corm which is edible and similar in taste and use as the potato. The most used common name for the species, Ithuriel's spear, is a reference to the angel Ithuriel from Milton's Paradise Lost.
Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Brodiaea candida, Baker (Triteleia candida, Greene). Much like B. laxa in character of bloom, but fls. only 6-10, and segms. white or bluish with a green vein, and the fls. set at an angle on the pedicel, so that they all face one way: further distinguished by early flowering and the very broad and glossy, scarcely carinate Lvs. Calif.
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Brodiaea laxa, Wats. Strong plant, 1-2 ft.: Lvs. linear: fls. many, broadly tubular, purple; tube very narrow, and exceeding the segms. ; filaments very slender; stamens in 2 rows. N. Calif.—Showy, and one of the best. There are many variations.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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