Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington, but also occurring in the north Puget Sound area; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah.
Habitat: Prairies, grasslands, balds and forest openings, often where seasonally dry, from the coast to middle elevations in the mountains.
Flowers: April-June
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies, beetles
Perennial herb from a bulb, leaves basal, inflorescence a scape to 75 cm tall.
Usually two or three from bulb, basal, narrow, 20-70 cm long × 4-10 mm wide.
Sepals 3 and petals 3, nearly identical in appearance (tepals), 17-35 mm, light bluish-purple to white, fused below and forming a tube. Stamens 6, attached alternately at 2 levels. Ovary superior.
Capsule, dehiscing lengthwise, seeds many, black.
Publication: Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 15: under plate 1293. 1830.
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var. grandiflora – blue-lily, Douglas' brodiaea, blue umber lily, large-flowered tritelia
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California, east to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah. -
var. howellii – Howell's large-flowered triteleia, Howell's triteleia Occurring mostly west of the Cascades crest and east in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; Vancouver Island to northern California.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Triteleia grandiflora in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Triteleia grandiflora checklist entry
OregonFlora: Triteleia grandiflora information
E-Flora BC: Triteleia grandiflora atlas page
CalPhotos: Triteleia grandiflora photos
