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Distribution:  Southwestern Oregon to southern California.

Synonyms:  Brodiaea laxa is an older name for Triteleia laxa.

Hardiness Zone:  USDA Zones 6-10       (view USDA zone map)

Size:   1 ft.

Form:   Cormous perennial.

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Stem/Bud:   Flowering stems are dark green, wiry and strong.

Leaves:   Leaves are dark green, linear, parallel-veined and onion- or grass-like.

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Flower:   Flowers are purple-blue or white, 3-petaled, 3-sepaled, funnel- or star-shaped and have upward pointing petals. Flowers are in 3's in 6 in. wide, loose umbels on 2 in. long stems; flowering June to July.

Fruit:   Fruit are capsules.

Uses:   Use in front of beds or borders, rock gardens, as groundcover, for naturalizing and as cut flowers

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Culture:   Grow in full sun in poor to average soil. Plant 4 in. deep.

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Notes:    Listed as Brodiaea laxa in the past, and in some catalogs now. Grows to 2 1/2 feet. Flowers violet purple to blue, or rarely white.

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