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Triteleia grandiflora Lindl.

Largeflower triteleia (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Triteleia

Characteristics

Leaves 20–70 cm × 4–10 mm. Scape 20–75 cm, smooth. Flowers: perianth bluish purple to white, 17–35 mm, tube obtuse and rounded at base, 8–20 mm, lobes spreading, 9–13 mm; stamens attached alternately at 2 levels, unequal; filaments slender and somewhat triangular, wider toward base, or broad, 1–4 mm, apical appendages absent or present; anthers yellow or purple, 2–4 mm; ovary twice as long as stipe; pedicel 1–4 cm. 2n = 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56.
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An onion family plant. It is a clumping herb that keeps growing from year to year. The corms are round and straw coloured. It grows 30-60 cm high and spreads 20-30 cm wide. The leaves are fine, flattened and grass-like. The flower stems are wiry. The flowers are funnel shaped and blue, mauve or white. They are in heads. The flowers have widely flared lobes.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.2 - 0.3
Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.2
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Dry to moist soils, often in rocky areas, meadows, or open woods of valleys, hills and in mountains; at elevations to 2,700 metres. Grasslands, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper woodlands, pine forests and hills; at elevations from 100-3,000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in grasslands and deserts and also in Ponderosa pine woodlands. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 5-9.
Light 5-8
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 4-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-9

Usage

The corms can be eaten raw but are better cooked. The boiled corms can be dried and stored. The young seed pods can be eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
Uses medicinal
Edible bulbs pods roots seeds
Therapeutic use Adjuvant (bulb), Unspecified (bulb), Poison (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 20
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Flower

Triteleia grandiflora flower picture by Susan Graham (cc-by-sa)
Triteleia grandiflora flower picture by Kyler Bowers (cc-by-sa)
Triteleia grandiflora flower picture by stevensmith2048 (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Triteleia grandiflora world distribution map, present in Canada, Colombia, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:259660-2
WFO ID wfo-0000749849
COL ID 593TL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Hookera howellii Triteleia bicolor Triteleia grandiflora Triteleia howellii Brodiaea grandiflora Hookera bicolor Hookera douglasii Milla grandiflora Brodiaea bicolor Brodiaea douglasii Brodiaea howellii Tulophos grandiflora Brodiaea douglasii var. howellii Brodiaea grandiflora var. major Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii Triteleia grandiflora var. grandiflora
WorldFloraDB 2024