Triteleia

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Kingdom Plantae Clade Monocots Family Asparagaceae Scientific name Triteleia Rank Genus		Clade Angiosperms Order Asparagales Subfamily Brodiaeoideae Higher classification Asparagaceae

Lower classifications Triteleia laxa, Triteleia ixioides, Triteleia crocea, Triteleia lugens, Triteleia bridgesii

Triteleia garden plants

Triteleia is a genus of monocotyledon flowering plants also known as triplet lilies. Species are native to western North America, from British Columbia south to California, with one species in northwestern Mexico. 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.

Flower bulbs triteleia avi

Taxonomy and systematics

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The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group in the 2009 revision place it in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Brodiaeoideae (having previously placed treated Brodiaeoideae as a separate family Themidaceae). Other modern authors place it in the family Alliaceae. Both these families are in the order Asparagales.

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About 15-20 species are currently recognised in Triteleia, with several of them having well defined subspecies or varieties that have different common names. Some common species that are now placed in genus Triteleia were formerly placed in genus Brodiaea, and as a consequence "brodiaea" has been incorporated into some of their common names.

Triteleia bridgesii – Bridges' brodiaea – mountains of northern California and southwestern Oregon

Triteleia clementina – San Clemente Island tripletlily – endemic to San Clemente Island

Triteleia crocea – Yellow tripletlily – mountains of northern California and southwestern Oregon

Triteleia dudleyi – Dudley's tripletlily – from Mono Count to Lost Angeles County

Triteleia grandiflora – Largeflower tripletlily, Wild Hyacinth – British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, extreme northern California; isolated population in southwestern Colorado

Triteleia guadalupensis – endemic to Guadalupe Island off the west coast of Baja California

Triteleia hendersonii – southwestern Oregon and extreme northern California

Triteleia hyacinthina – White tripletlily, hyacinth brodiaea, fool's onion – common in much of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California; also western Nevada and northern Idaho

Triteleia ixioides – Prettyface – much of California plus southwestern Oregon

Triteleia laxa – Ithuriel's spear, grassnut – much of California plus southwestern Oregon

Triteleia lemmoniae – Oak Creek tripletlily – Arizona

Triteleia lilacina – northern California

Triteleia lugens – Coast Range tripletlily – coastal mountains of California

Triteleia montana – northern Sierra Nevada of California

Triteleia peduncularis – Longray tripletlily – coastal counties of northern California

Triteleia × versicolor – Pinto tripletlily – Monterey County (hybrid T. hyacinthina × T. ixioides)

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References

Triteleia Wikipedia

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Triteleia garden plants

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Taxonomy and systematics

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