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Triteleia hyacinthina
Also called Fool's Onion, Hyacinth Brodiaea, Wild Hyacinth, White Triteleia, White Hyacinth
White brodiaea is a native North American bulb (corm) that produces a rounded cluster of white, funnel-shaped flowers in spring to early summer. It grows best in full sun with good drainage and a dry summer rest, often in grassland or meadow settings.
Triteleia hyacinthina is a species of flowering plant known by the common names white brodiaea, white tripletlily, hyacinth brodiaea, and fool's onion. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Idaho to central California. Its habitat includes grassland and vernally moist areas such as meadows and vernal pools. It is a perennial herb growing from a corm. It produces two or three basal leaves up to 40 centimeters (16 in) long by 2 centimeters (0.79 in) wide. The inflorescence arises on an erect stem up to 60 centimeters (24 in) tall and bears an umbel-like cluster of many flowers. Each flower is a funnel-shaped bloom borne on a pedicel up to 5 centimeters (2.0 in) long. The flower is white, often tinged purple along the tubular throat, with six green-veined tepals. There are six stamens with white, yellow, or occasionally blue anthers.
Bridges' brodiaea · San Clemente Island triteleia · Yellow triteleia · Dudley's triteleia · Largeflower triteleia · Henderson's triteleia · Prettyface · Ithuriel's spear · Oak Creek triteleia · Foothill Triteleia · Coast Range triteleia · Sierra triteleia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Triteleia hyacinthina 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.
