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.
Species In Genus: +- 19 species: mostly endemic to California. Etymology: (James Brodie, Scottish botanist, 1744--1824)
Jepson eFlora 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
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
Key to Brodiaea

List of species Brodiaea appendiculata Brodiaea californica Brodiaea coronaria Brodiaea elegans subsp. elegans Brodiaea filifolia Brodiaea insignis Brodiaea jolonensis Brodiaea kinkiensis Brodiaea leptandra Brodiaea matsonii Brodiaea minor Brodiaea nana Brodiaea orcuttii Brodiaea pallida Brodiaea rosea Brodiaea rosea subsp. rosea Brodiaea rosea subsp. vallicola Brodiaea santarosae Brodiaea sierrae Brodiaea stellaris Brodiaea terrestris Brodiaea terrestris subsp. kernensis Brodiaea terrestris subsp. terrestris

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