- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›monocots
- ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
- ›agave and allies
- ›Brodiaea subfamily
- ›Brodiaea
starflower brodiaea
Brodiaea stellaris
Brodiaea stellaris is a species of flowering plant in the cluster-lily genus known by the common name starflower brodiaea.
The bulb is endemic to northern California, where it grows on the serpentine soils of the North California Coast Ranges. Flowering peaks in May
From the article Brodiaea stellaris on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Brodiaea stellaris is a perennial that produces a short inflorescence only a few centimeters tall which bears flowers on pedicels. Each flower has six blue-purple tepals up to 1.5 centimeters long. At the center of the flower are large white sterile stamens called staminodes which surround the distinctive forked fertile stamens.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Brodiaea stellaris in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 75894.