Brodiaea coronaria

Scape 4-25 cm, slender. Flowers 24-38 mm; perianth bluish violet, bluish purple, rosy purple, or rose, tube ovoid to campanulate, 6-13 cm, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 12-25 mm; filaments 3-4 mm, base dilated to form triangular flap; anthers linear, 5-7 mm, apex hooked or rounded; staminodia curving inward toward stamens overall but curving outward at apex, white or pink, broad, 10-11 mm, margins 3/4 involute, apex rounded; ovary 6-9 mm; style 6-11 mm; pedicel 1-5 cm.

Most of the plants that W. L. Jepson (1923-1925) placed under this name have been transferred to Brodiaea elegans (T. F. Niehaus 1971, 1980).