Triteleia

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Triteleia is a genus of monocotyledon flowering plants also known as tripletlilies . Species are native to western North America, from British Columbia southwards, with the ranges of some species reaching to Guatemala. However they are most common in California. They are perennial plants growing from a fibrous corm, roughly spherical in shape. They get their name from the fact that all parts of their flowers come in threes.


Read about Triteleia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Triteleia: Brodiaea. The following species, listed under Triteleia, is to be combined with the treatment of Brodiaea in Vol. I, p. 576. B. uniflora, Baker (Triteleia uniflora, Lindl. Milla uniflora, Graham). Spring Star-Flower. Lvs. narrow-linear, 1 ft. or less long: scapes 8 in. or less tall, bearing a bract-like spathe toward the top: fl. 1 (rarely 2), 1 – 1 1/2 in. across, pale lilac or pale blue, with pointed segms. violet-streaked through the center. Argentina. Hardy in most of the northern states, although it does not persist long. Grown chiefly as a pot-plant for spring bloom. Var. caerulea, Hort., has porcelain-blue fls. There are other horticultural forms. T. violacea, with "delicate violet fls.," is probably a form of this species rather than the T. violacea, Kunth, a Chilean species. CH


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