Androstephium
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The genus Androstephium belongs to the family Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae...

, subfamily Brodiaeoideae. It contains three species.

Species include:
  • Androstephium breviflorum
    Androstephium breviflorum
    Androstephium breviflorum is a species of flowering plant known by the common name pink funnel lily. It is native to the southwestern United States from Wyoming to the deserts of eastern California. This is a perennial herb growing from a spherical corm...

    - pink funnel lily
  • Androstephium caeruleum
    Androstephium caeruleum
    Androstephium caeruleum, commonly called blue funnel-lily, is a herbaceous perennial growing from corms. It has light blue to violet purple flowers and grows up to 35 cm tall. It is found growing in prairies and on grassy slopes in its native range within Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas of the...

    - blue funnel lily

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