Common Name: BRODIAEA FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb from corm, outer coat fibrous [membranous]; daughter corms formed at stem base above corm of previous year, cormlets formed at base of corms or on short stolons. Leaf: basal, 1--10, linear to narrow-lanceolate. Inflorescence: scapose, generally umbel-like; scape erect, generally 1(2), cylindric, generally rigid, occasionally wavy to twining; flower bracts 2--4[10], not enclosing flower buds. Flower: perianth parts 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, free or +- fused below into tube; staminodes 0 or 3; stamens 3 or 6, free or fused to perianth, occasionally appendaged; ovary superior, chambers 3, ovules 2--several per chamber. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal. Genera In Family: 13 genera, 70--80 species: western North America. eFlora Treatment Author: J. Chris Pires & Robert E. Preston, except as noted Scientific Editor: Dale W. McNeal, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: GOLDENSTAR Habit: Corm +- spheric, daughter corms 1--3 on stalks. Leaf: 1--8, keeled, entire, withered in flower. Inflorescence: scape stiff, straight, cylindric, minute-scabrous; bracts 2--4, not enclosing flower buds, scarious in flower; pedicels ray-like, ascending to erect, jointed; flowers 10--35+. Flower: perianth parts +- free at base, not forming obvious tube, golden-yellow, striped +- brown or green, lobes ascending to spreading; stamens 6, filaments +- 6 mm, parallel to style, dilated bases fused to form nectar cup with shallow to awned cusps, or leaning away from style, leaving dilated bases separated, not forming cup, distally thread-like, anthers attached near base; style +- 5 mm, thread- or club-like, persistent, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit: 5--6 mm, +- spheric, 3-angled, sessile. Seed: angled, wrinkled, black-crusted. Etymology: (Dr. H.G. Bloomer, early San Francisco botanist, one of three founders of the California Academy of Sciences) eFlora Treatment Author: J. Chris Pires Unabridged Reference: Hoover 1955 Herbertia 11:13--23; Ingram 1953 Madroño 12:19--27
Bloomeria crocea (Torr.) Coville
NATIVE Leaf: generally 1, < 30 cm, 3--15 mm wide. Inflorescence: scape 15--70 cm; pedicels 0.5--6.5 cm. Flower: perianth 5--13 mm, lobes abruptly spreading at base, yellow with brown midvein; filaments 3--10 mm, parallel to style, nectar cup shallow, cusps obtuse to acute, anthers 1.5--3 mm; ovary 2--3 mm, style +- 6 mm, > ovary. Chromosomes: n=9.
Citation for this treatment: J. Chris Pires 2012, Bloomeria crocea, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=15764, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
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