hyacinth flower seeds Wild Hyacinth Seeds (Triteleia hyacinthina) — Northwest Meadowscapes

hyacinth flower seeds Wild Hyacinth Seeds (Triteleia hyacinthina) — Northwest MeadowscapesAnother splendidly long lived western wildflower with an edible bulb. Also known as white brodiaea, and fools onion, this is a plant that can grow anywhere camas grows preferring wet winter dry summer locations from British Columbia to south into central California, and from western Nevada and Idaho to the Pacific Coast. Like camas, this plant takes a number of years to flower when planted from seed, and when it does mature to a flowering age, the

Another splendidly long-lived western wildflower with an edible bulb.

Also known as white brodiaea, and fool’s onion, this is a plant that can grow anywhere camas grows – preferring “wet winter/dry summer” locations from British Columbia to south into central California, and from western Nevada and Idaho to the Pacific Coast.

Like camas, this plant takes a number of years to flower when planted from seed, and when it does mature to a flowering age, the tall handsome clusters of blooms last mere days, before disappearing back under-ground (sometimes not appearing again for several years). The slender, cryptic leaves of plant similarly make only brief appearances.

All of this happens year-after-year, decade-after-decade, century-after-century in the very long lifespan of enigmatic plant. Over that timescale the plant slowly develops into a tennis ball-sized bulb (actually a corm), that may anchor itself more than a foot deep into heavy, mucky, clay soils.

Although slow to start from seed, as the corms mature, they produce offsets that can be divided to produce new plants.

This is a good rain garden plant, and a good species for soggy but sunny meadows. With care, this also a wildflower can survive to meet our descendants, many generations from now.  

0.5 grams (approximately 200 seeds)