Pretty Face Brodiaea

Did you know

• The corms were a staple food of California's indigenous peoples, who managed grasslands through controlled burning to increase their yield.
• Each umbel contains 10-25 star-shaped flowers that last for weeks, making them excellent long-lasting cut flowers.
• The plant goes completely dormant in summer, surviving California's dry season as a small underground corm.
• It was once classified as Brodiaea, but molecular studies in the 1990s placed it in the separate genus Triteleia.
• Gold rush miners in 1849 reportedly ate the corms when other food was scarce, learning the practice from local Native Americans.

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Uses

• native plant gardens
• wildflower meadows
• cut flowers
• container plantings