Echeandia Ortega. Common name: Crag-lily, Echeandia.
A genus of about 80 species, cormose perennial herbs, of s. US south to South America.
ID notes: Herbaceous perennials that grow from corms with typically narrow leaves arranged in basal rosettes. The leaves are usually very narrowly linear to narrowly oblong or elliptic. The flowers are arranged in loose racemes that are always yellow in our species (but can be orange, white, or cream in species beyond our region to the south).
References: Conran (1998a) In Kubitzki (1998a); Cruden (2002) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002a); Poole et al. (2007). Show full citations.
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