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Androstephium coeruleum
Also called Funnel Flower
A small prairie bulb (corm) native to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, grown for its light blue to violet funnel-shaped spring flowers. It is uncommon in the wild and can be grown in a sunny, free-draining garden bed or rock garden.
Androstephium coeruleum, commonly called blue funnel-lily, is an herbaceous perennial growing from corms. It has light blue to violet purple flowers and grows up to 35 cm tall. It is found growing in prairies and on grassy slopes in its native range within Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas of the United States. It disperses its seed by wind.
The blue funnel lily is among the first of the prairie flowers to bloom - emerging in February and flowering in March in North Central Texas.
There is great variability in the shape and color (sky blue to purple to white) of flowers of the species; they have a faint sweet scent described as
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androstephium coeruleum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
