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Brodiaea Grandiflora
''Brodiaea coronaria'' is the type species of ''Brodiaea'' and also known by the common names harvest brodiaea and crown brodiaea. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern California, where it grows in mountains and grasslands. Description ''Brodiaea coronaria'' is a perennial herb growing from a corm and producing an erect inflorescence with a few basal leaves. The inflorescence is up to about tall and bears lilylike flowers on an array of pedicels. Each flower is a tube several centimeters long opening into a bell-shaped corolla of six bright purple lobes each up to long. In the center are three stamens and whitish sterile stamens known as staminodes. Taxonomy Nomenclature The history of the scientific name of this species is somewhat tangled. The plant was first collected by Archibald Menzies during the Vancouver Expedition, and published as ''Hookera coronaria'' by Richard Salisbury in '' Paradisus Londinensis'' early in 1808. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington state
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from the national capital, both named after George Washington (the first U.S. president). Washington borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and shares an international border with the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. Olympia is the state capital, and the most populous city is Seattle. Washington is the 18th-largest state, with an area of , and the 13th-most populous state, with a population of just less than 8 million. The majority of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry on Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
