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Authors: Arn.  

Botanical Description

Eleganti Height 5-30cm. Basal leaf 10-40cm long, 2-30mm wide. Stem usually unbranched. Flowers one to five, white or cream, sometimes tinged or marked to a varying degree with purple, widely campanulate, the petals fringed and densely bearded above the glands, which are transverse, naked, depressed, with a broad fringed membrane below and a series of thick hairs above. From Seattle, Washington, south-west to northern California. This is a beautiful species which has not been widely grown to date.