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.

Habit: Cormlets often present. Leaf: generally 1--6, linear, generally crescent-shaped in ×-section, glabrous, entire, often withered at flower. Inflorescence: open; scape 2--70 cm, generally slender, generally straight, cylindric; bracts scarious; pedicels generally > flowers, generally < 13 cm. Flower: perianth tube bell- to funnel-shaped, green-white, lobes erect to spreading, violet to lavender, occasionally pink, midribs purple or green; staminodes (0)3, generally +- erect, opposite outer lobes, white to violet or lavender, lateral margins flat, incurved, or inrolled; stamens 3, equal, fused to perianth, opposite inner lobes, filaments occasionally winged or appendaged, free or fused basally to staminodes, generally not forming crown-like tube, anthers attached at base, appressed to style, abaxially papillate; style 1, stigma lobes 3, spreading and recurved. Fruit: sessile, ovoid. Seed: oblong, black, lined, angles ridged.
Etymology: (James Brodie, Scottish botanist, 1744--1824)
eFlora Treatment Author: J. Chris Pires & Robert E. Preston
Reference: Preston 2013 Systematic Botany 38:1012--1028
Unabridged Reference: Chester et al. 2007 Madroño 54:187--198; Preston 2006 Madroño 53:46--54; Preston 2006 Novon 16:254--259

Inflorescence: scape 0.5--20 cm, slender; pedicels <= 13 cm. Flower: perianth 15--39.5 mm, tube 7.5--13 mm, narrow-bell-shaped, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes 10--24 mm, violet (white), ascending, tips recurved; staminodes leaning toward but not appressed to stamens, 5.5--12 mm, white to violet, margins 1/4 incurved, tip occasionally +- hooded; filaments 2--4.5 mm, base dilated, anthers 2.5--7 mm, tips generally reflexed, with dentate lobe in notch or not; ovary 4--10 mm, style 4--10 mm.