Alternate name: Large-flower Triplet-lily, Douglas's Triteleia
Family: Liliaceae, Lily view all from this family
Description Pale or deep blue, narrowly bell-shaped flowers bloom in an umbel at the top of a leafless stem that has one or two grass-like basal leaves.
Flowers: about 3/4" (2 cm) wide; 6 petal-like segments joined at base to form a broad tube about 1/2" (1.3 cm) long, the inner 3 segments strongly ruffled and nearly closing the opening; stamens 6, attached to tube at different levels, with stalks about as thick as broad.
Leaves: to 20" (50 cm) long.
Height: 8-28" (20-70 cm).
Flower April-July.
Habitat In grassy areas, among sagebrush, or in pine forests.
Range Southern British Columbia south on the east side of the Cascade Mountains to southeastern Oregon; eastward to western Montana, western Wyoming, and northern Utah.
Discussion The ruffled, petal-like segments make this flower unusual. Howell's Triteleia, (T. howelii), from southern British Columbia to northern Oregon near the Cascade Mountains, has much shorter flower stalks and only slightly ruffled petal-like segments that vary from white to blue.
