California brodiaea

Family: onion family. Occurs: on dry gravelly soils of the upper subtropical and steppe belts of the mountains of California.

The most large-flowered species of the genus. Leaves folded lengthwise, grooved, thick. Stem sturdy, rough, 30-50 cm tall. Pedicels of varying lengths, 2-9 cm. Flowers 3-13, purple, 3-4 cm long; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, segments three times longer than it, outer - acute, inner - with rounded tip. Filaments of stamens without appendages, 0.5-0.6 cm long; anthers 0.8 cm long. Staminodes white, their edges slightly turned inward. Capsule sessile. 2n = 10, 12. Flowers in June. Fruit - a capsule.