Elegant Brodiaea, Brodiaea elegans Family Lily (Liliaceae) Height 4-16” Color Blue/Purple Flowers Bell shaped. Attached to single stem in groups of up to 10. Blooms May-August Leaves Habitat Coastal prairies, serprentine grasslands     Also called Harvest Brodiaea. Somewhat similar to Ithuriel's Spear, Triteleia laxa, which blooms earlier in the spring. Elegant Brodiaea can be distinguished definitively by its 3 stamens with anthers and 3 without. Ithuriel's Spear has 6 anther bearing stamens. But, most can tell the two apart visually. The blue-purple is paler in Ithuriel's Spear and the petals are glossier and come to more of a point on Brodiaea. The leaves dry out before the flowers appear. Brodiaea is named after James J. Brodie, a Scottish botanist. [1] The Yurok ate the bulbs as a vegetable by baking them in sand with a fire built over them. [1] A white flower, Wild or White Hyacinth, Triteleia hyacinthina, looks similar and is related. caption: file: x - square 0" x 0" at 300 dpi - release: contact us regarding image add image to lightbox References [1] http://www.nps.gov/archive/prsf/nathist1/wildflowers/blues/harvest_brodiaea.htm