Brodiaea rosea

Indian Valley brodiaea, Indian Valley Brodiaea

Family: Themidaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 3.1

Indian Valley brodiaea is a rare (CNPS 3.1) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges and northern California inner Coast Ranges in serpentine openings, chaparral, and closed-cone forest at elevations of 450 to 600 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white to pink or violet flowers with occasional purple streaks, featuring delicate perianth lobes 11 to 24 millimeters long that curve gently upward. Growing with a slender scape 10 to 30 centimeters tall emerging from a thin-coated corm, it displays a distinctive bell-shaped flower structure with elegantly recurved petal tips. Its flowers have inner and outer perianth lobes of varying widths, with inner lobes 4.2 to 8.5 millimeters wide and outer lobes 3.3 to 6.5 millimeters wide. The fruit develops from an ovary 5.1 to 8.5 millimeters long, topped by a style reaching 5.3 to 10.5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Openings, along drainages, chaparral, closed-cone forest, on serpentine

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 450-600 m.

Bioregions: KR, NCoRI.

California counties: Tehama, Lake, Shasta, Trinity

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.