May Brevurtia

Family: the onion family. Herbaceous slopes in light forests of the warm-temperate (lower montane) and upper subtropical mountain belts of North America (states of Oregon and California). Distinguished from Brodiaea ida-maia by a perianth constricted at the throat, its pink-purple coloration and pinkish staminodes.

Corm ovoid, with a fibrous tunic. Leaves linear, keeled, 30-45 cm long, 0.4-0.8 cm wide. Stem thin, 30-100 cm tall. Flowers mostly nodding. The tube of the perianth broadly cylindrical, 2-3 cm long, crimson-red; segments 0.5-0.6 cm long, chrome-green, straight or recurved. Anthers 3, cream-white, erect. Staminodes 3 in number, 0.2-0.3 cm long, pale yellow. Capsule ovoid-oblong, on a stalk and with a persistent style. 2n - 40. Grown in deeply worked, well-drained loose soil with leaf humus, in partial shade. Propagated by daughter corms and seeds. A highly ornamental plant. Deserves trial in the Caucasus and Transcarpathia.