Appearance
''Brodiaea coronaria'' is a perennial herb growing from a corm and producing an erect inflorescence with a few basal leaves. The inflorescence is up to about 25 centimeters tall and bears lilylike flowers on an array of pedicels.Each flower is a tube several centimeters long opening into a bell-shaped corolla of six bright purple lobes each up to 3 centimeters long. In the center are three stamens and whitish sterile stamens known as staminodes.
Naming
There are two subspecies of this plant:⤷ ''Brodiaea coronaria'' subsp. ''coronaria'' – crown brodiaea
⤷ ''Brodiaea coronaria'' subsp. ''rosea'' – Indian Valley brodiaea; a rare pink-flowered subspecies endemic to a small region in the Inner North California Coast Ranges in northwestern California.
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