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Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
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Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Pink Funnel Lily growing in sandy soils

General: Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum), also called Purple Funnel Lily and Blue Funnel Lily (a species found in Texas and Oklahoma) presumably because the flowers are white to pale violet. The plant is a perennial forb that grows from a bulb. Typical for lilies, the flower stalk branches six ways, and the flowers have six petals.

Leaves are long (to 30-cm long) and narrow (1- to 2-mm wide), round in cross-section, and with a groove on one side. The inflorescence is an open umbel. Globular fruits (10-15 mm) form three lobes.

Pink Funnel Lily is a rare component of desert communities with sandy soils. Around Las Vegas, look for this species in sandy Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub habitats around Las Vegas.

Family: Lily (Liliaceae)

Photos here were taken on Dry Lake Dunes (Desert NWR), Moapa River Indian Reservation, and Mormon Mesa.

Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Plant form on sandy soils
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Leaves long and narrow
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Leaves long and narrow
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Leaves narrow with a groove on one side
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Six-part inflorescence (one flower broken off)
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Round, leafless flower stalk comes directly from the bulb (a scape)
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Flower white with violet streaks
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
One closed, one open flower
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum) Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Seed pods are three-lobed
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Developing seed pods
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum) Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Ripe seed pod
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Ripe seed pod
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Ripe seed pod beginning to open
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Seed pods open from the tip to reveal back, disk-shaped seeds
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum) Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum) Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Disk-shaped seeds
Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Skeleton of plant after seeds were dispersed

Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate. Names generally follow the USDA database.
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