Vegetation Around Las Vegas, Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)

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Pink Funnel Lily (Androstephium breviflorum)
Perennial Forbs Around Las Vegas, Vegetation Around Las Vegas

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.

Plant form on sandy soils	Leaves long and narrow
Leaves long and narrow	Leaves narrow with a groove on one side
Six-part inflorescence (one flower broken off)	Round, leafless flower stalk comes directly from the bulb (a scape)
Flower white with violet streaks	One closed, one open flower

Seed pods are three-lobed	Developing seed pods

Ripe seed pod	Ripe seed pod
Ripe seed pod beginning to open	Seed pods open from the tip to reveal back, disk-shaped seeds


Disk-shaped seeds	Skeleton of plant after seeds were dispersed

Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate. Names generally follow the USDA database.
; Last updated 190510

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