Triteleia

Plant Characteristics

Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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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 The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

• Triteleia bridgesii – Bridges' Brodiaea
• Triteleia clementina – San Clemente Island Tripletlily
• Triteleia crocea – Yellow Tripletlily
  • Triteleia crocea var. crocea
  • Triteleia crocea var. modesta
• Triteleia dudleyi – Dudley's Tripletlily
• Triteleia grandiflora – Largeflower Tripletlily, Wild Hyacinth
  • Triteleia grandiflora var. grandiflora
  • Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii
• Triteleia guadalupensis
• Triteleia hendersonii
  • Triteleia hendersonii var. hendersonii – Henderson's Tripletlily
  • Triteleia hendersonii var. leachiae – Leach's Tripletlily
• Triteleia hyacinthina – White Tripletlily, Hyacinth Brodiaea, Fool's Onion
• Triteleia ixioides – Prettyface
  • Triteleia ixioides ssp. anilina
  • Triteleia ixioides ssp. cookii – Cook's Prettyface
  • Triteleia ixioides ssp. ixioides – Golden Brodiaea
  • Triteleia ixioides ssp. scabra
  • Triteleia ixioides ssp. unifolia
  • Triteleia ixioides ssp. uniofoliaTemplate:Verify source
• Triteleia laxa – Ithuriel's Spear, Grassnut
• Triteleia lemmoniae – Oak Creek Tripletlily
• Triteleia lilacina
• Triteleia lugens – Coast Range Tripletlily
• Triteleia montana
• Triteleia peduncularis – Longray Tripletlily
• Triteleia unifolia – Oneflower Tripletlily
• Triteleia versicolor – Pinto Tripletlily

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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