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Dudley's triteleia

Triteleia dudleyi

Dudley's triteleia
Photo: EriaWei, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
California
Climate
temperate

About

Triteleia dudleyi is a species of flowering plant known by the common name Dudley's triteleia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from sections of the High Sierra Nevada and the Transverse Ranges. It is a plant of subalpine climates, growing in mountain forests. It is a perennial herb growing from a corm. It produces two or three basal leaves up to 30 centimeters long by one wide. The inflorescence arises on an erect stem up to 30 or 35 centimeters tall and bears an umbel-like cluster of many flowers. Each flower is a funnel-shaped yellow bloom that dries purple. The flower has six lobes measuring up to 1.2 centimeters long. There are six stamens with lavender anthers.

Other Triteleia plants

Bridges' brodiaea · San Clemente Island triteleia · Yellow triteleia · Largeflower triteleia · Henderson's triteleia · White brodiaea · Prettyface · Ithuriel's spear · Oak Creek triteleia · Foothill Triteleia · Coast Range triteleia · Sierra triteleia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Triteleia dudleyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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