Triteleia laxaBenth.

Ithuriel's Spear

WFO wfo-0000749886 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Triteleia laxa, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. a joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-31 / obs. 202330852
Triteleia laxa, photographed by rappman
fig. b rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203935782
Triteleia laxa, photographed by rappman
fig. c rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203368391
Triteleia laxa, photographed by Drew Meyer
fig. d Drew Meyer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202895623
Triteleia laxa, photographed by rappman
fig. e rappman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202066298
Triteleia laxa, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. f Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202031380
Triteleia laxa, photographed by Hydrocycler (Elizabeth Dougherty)
fig. g Hydrocycler (Elizabeth Dougherty), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201280211
Triteleia laxa, photographed by Hydrocycler (Elizabeth Dougherty)
fig. h Hydrocycler (Elizabeth Dougherty), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201279648

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 8,904 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 8,904 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 13 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 candida Baker
  • Brodiaea laxa S.Watson
  • Brodiaea laxa var. candida (Greene) Jeps.
  • Brodiaea laxa var. nimia Jeps.
  • Brodiaea laxa var. tracyi Jeps.
  • Hookera laxa (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Milla laxa (Benth.) Baker
  • Milla laxa (Benth.) A.C.Baker
  • Seubertia laxa (Benth.) Kunth
  • Seubertia obscura Borzí
  • Triteleia angustiflora A.Heller
  • Triteleia candida Greene
  • Tulophos laxa (Benth.) Raf.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.