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Androstephium
Sign in to saveThe genus Androstephium is a group of North American plants in the cluster lily subfamily within the asparagus family. It contains two species native to the southwestern and south-central United States.
Species
small-flowered androstephium
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 14
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- MO, SJNM, NY, ASU, O, BRIT
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Brodiaeoideae
- Image
- Androstephium coeruleum.jpg
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- Commons category
- Androstephium
- taxon name
- Androstephium
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Androstephium
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Encyclopedic overview
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The genus Androstephium is a group of North American plants in the cluster lily subfamily within the asparagus family. It contains two species native to the southwestern and south-central United States. Species {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Androstephium breviflorum S.Watson || pink funnel lily || deserts of Arizona, Utah, southeastern California, southern Nevada, northwestern New Mexico, western Colorado, southern Wyoming |- |120px || Androstephium coeruleum (Scheele) Greene || blue funnel lily || grasslands of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas |- |}
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Androstephium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.