Triteleia crocea(Alph.Wood) Greene

yellow triteleia

WFO wfo-0000749784 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Triteleia crocea, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-08 / obs. 128545193
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128142404
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Steve Matson
fig. c Steve Matson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140759079
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Drew Meyer
fig. d Drew Meyer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202094954
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. e Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129988339
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Alex Heyman
fig. f Alex Heyman, CC0 1.0 / obs. 76939634
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50371684
Triteleia crocea, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111058874

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Triteleia crocea is native: California, Oregon CaliforniaOregon
Native distribution of Triteleia crocea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
California CAL NORTHERN AMERICA
Oregon ORE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Brodiaea crocea (Alph.Wood) S.Watson
  • Brodiaea crocea var. modesta (H.M.Hall) Munz
  • Brodiaea modesta H.M.Hall
  • Hookera crocea (Alph.Wood) Kuntze
  • Milla crocea (Alph.Wood) Baker
  • Seubertia crocea Alph.Wood
  • Triteleia crocea var. crocea
  • Triteleia crocea var. modesta (H.M.Hall) Hoover
  • Triteleia modesta (H.M.Hall) Abrams

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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