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|familia=Alliaceae
|genus=Triteleia
|species=laxa
|common_name=Grassnut, Triplet lily, Ithuriel's spear
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|Min wd box=8
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|lifespan=perennial
|life_ref=Wikipedia
|exposure=sun, part-sun
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|features=flowers
|flower_season=early summer, mid summer, late summer
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|flowers=blue, purple, white
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|image=Ithuriels Spear, Triteleia laxa.jpg
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'''''Triteleia laxa''''' (previously ''Brodiaea laxa'') is a [[triplet lily]] known by several common names, including '''Ithuriel's spear''' and '''grassnut'''. It is native to California where it is a common wildflower, and it is occasionally found in Oregon. It bears a tall, naked stem topped with a spray of smaller stalks, each ending in a purple or blue flower. The flower is tubular, opening into a sharply six-pointed star. The plant grows from a [[corm]] which is edible and similar in taste and use as the [[potato]]. The most used common name for the species, Ithuriel's spear, is a reference to the angel [[Ithuriel]] from [[John Milton|Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]''.

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Brodiaea candida, Baker (Triteleia candida, Greene). Much like B. laxa in character of bloom, but fls. only 6-10, and segms. white or bluish with a green vein, and the fls. set at an angle on the pedicel, so that they all face one way: further distinguished by early flowering and the very broad and glossy, scarcely carinate Lvs. Calif.
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Brodiaea laxa, Wats. Strong plant, 1-2 ft.: Lvs. linear: fls. many, broadly tubular, purple; tube very narrow, and exceeding the segms. ; filaments very slender; stamens in 2 rows. N. Calif.—Showy, and one of the best. There are many variations.
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