Brodiaea californica Lindl. subsp. californica

No botanical uses.

beyond the tube, the anthers i cm. long-; the staminodia usually
a little longer than the stamens, 2 mm. wide, tylunt or retuse,
with prominent midvein, slightly arched inward*, and standing
Sjfcthe-'staMens»'
PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA
Shasta County
7844 HOOKERA CALIFORNICA (Lindl.) Greene
Redding
A. A. Helldr, Collector 1 ,	May 25, 1905
Flora of North America / Jepson Manual ed. 2
Brodiaea californica Lindley subsp. californica
J. Chris Pires	Feb 2005
Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS)
Herbarium of the University of California,
A BIOSYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE GENUS
BRODIAEA, AMARYLLIDACEAE
Brodiaea californica Lindl.
Theodore Niehaus	June
iloOKERA €A^iFOKNic^(Lindl.) Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:
136. 1886. ; %	;
Brodiaea Californica Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 4: 84.
Brodiaea grandiflora var. (?) major S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 3:
153, 1880. *
No. 7844, collected on dry gravelly hills in the western
part of Redding, Shasta county, May 25, the plants averaging
about two feet in height' The flower of this species is poorly
described by recent authors. It is narrow, almost tubular, and
certainly not “broadly funnekform,” as implied by Watson; 4 cm.
long, the tube 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, slightly or not at all
enlarged; the violet-purple segments 3 cm. long, oblong or ob-
long spatulate, about 7 mm. wide, three of them rounded at
the apex, the Other three acute, all marked with a prominent
\ mfdvein. The stamens and staminodia extend about 2 cm.
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