About Brodiaea coronaria (Salisb.) Jeps.
Brodiaea coronaria, with the scientific name Brodiaea coronaria (Salisb.) Jeps., is a perennial herb that grows from a corm. It produces an erect inflorescence and a small number of basal leaves. The entire inflorescence reaches up to around 25 centimeters, or 10 inches, tall, and bears lily-like flowers attached to a set of individual pedicels. Each flower forms a tube several centimeters long, which opens into a bell-shaped corolla made of six bright purple lobes. Each lobe can grow up to 3 centimeters, or 1 inch, long. At the center of the flower are three fertile stamens, along with whitish, sterile stamens called staminodes. Native Americans and early European settlers on the North American continent harvested the small corms of this plant for food. The corms are edible when raw, and have a taste described as nutty or similar to celery.
