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Brodiaea patagonica). Leaves few per bulb, linear, blunt-tipped, up to 8cm long. Flowers solitary or in twos, erect, 2-3.5cm in diameter, white with a dark stripe on the back of each tepal lobe, spring. Argentina, from southern central cordilleras to the tip of Patagonia, on bareish soil near the snow melt zone at 300-2000m according to latitude. The showiest and most garden-worthy species. T. anemophila is similar, but bearing flowers no more than 1.4cm across with almost linear tepal-lobes. Northernmost Patagonian Argentina at 2200m. Some authorities consider it a variety of T. patagonicum. [Pl.504]
