''Muilla maritima'' is a species of flowering plant known by the common names sea muilla and common muilla. It is native to

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and

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, where it grows in many types of habitats from the coast to the

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and Sierra Nevada foothills and other inland mountains, in grassland, woodland, desert, and forest floras. It is a perennial plant growing from a

corm Corm, bulbo-tuber, or bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen, underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation). The word ''c ...

and producing an erect flowering stem up to half a meter tall. The onion-like leaves at the base of the stem may be 60 centimeters long. The flowering stem bears an

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-shaped array of many flowers on

pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branch ...

up to 5 centimeters long. Each flower has six

tepal A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of very ...

s which are green-tinged white in color with brownish midribs and no more than 6 millimeters in length. At the center of the flower are six erect

stamen The stamen (: stamina or stamens) is a part consisting of the male reproductive organs of a flower. Collectively, the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament ...

s with blue, green, or purplish anthers.Flora of North America
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Brodiaeoideae Flora of California Flora of Baja California Plants described in 1879 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Asparagaceae-stub