Originally described as Ornithogalum ixiodes in 1811, most likely by the botanist/librarian Carlsson Dryander, who was working for Joseph Banks at Kew during this time, from a specimen sent by the intrepid pacific northwest botanist Archibald Menzies. In the late 1800’s, the botanists of the day moved this from Themis, to Brodiaea, to Calliproa and back to Triteleia. Those botanists were as busy as they are today. Nothing incites wrath in me more as a nurseryman than the botanists constant naming revisions. Regardless, this is a wonderful little wildflower from the coniferous woodlands of Southern Oregon and into Northern California.
Originally described as Ornithogalum ixiodes in 1811, most likely by the botanist/librarian Carlsson Dryander, who was working for Joseph Banks at Kew during this time, from a specimen sent by the intrepid pacific northwest botanist Archibald Menzies. In the late 1800’s, the botanists of the day moved this from Themis, to Brodiaea, to Calliproa and back to Triteleia. Those botanists were as busy as they are today. Nothing incites wrath in me more as a nurseryman than the botanists constant naming revisions. Regardless, this is a wonderful little wildflower from the coniferous woodlands of Southern Oregon and into Northern California.
