Triteleia ixioides subsp. scabra

Family: Themidaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Triteleia ixioides subsp. scabra is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada in scrub edges, mixed and conifer forests, foothill woodlands, and grasslands at elevations of 150 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces straw-colored to pale yellow flowers with 10 to 20 millimeter lobes that are ascending to reflexed. Growing with a scape 20 to 50 centimeters tall that is scabrous, it develops 10 to 50 centimeter leaves. Its leaves are slender and emerge from a basal cluster, adapting to clay and granite soils. The flower's filaments have distinctive appendages that are mostly straight to slightly recurved, with cream or yellow anthers that occasionally display an unusual blue coloration.

Habitat: Scrub edges, mixed or conifer forest, foothill woodland and grassland, clay, granite soils

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 150-2200 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SN.

California counties: Fresno, Tulare, Kern, Tuolumne, Butte, Mariposa, Plumas, Sutter, Sacramento, Madera, Yolo, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Mono, Tehama, Shasta, Calaveras, Trinity, Amador, Lake, Siskiyou, Los Angeles, Yuba, Alpine, Santa Barbara

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