Cooperia drummondii
Family: Liliaceae
Plant Description: Scape usually 15-35 cm high. Perianth tube 6.5-10 cm long. Tepals about 2 cm long, white. Plant comes from a bulb. Leavers linear. Fruit is a capsule splitting into three parts.
Plant Trivia: Weedy in garden and parks. Our most abundant rainlily. Endemic to Texas.
Field Identification:
Occurrence: Common on various soils in prairies, openings, and waste places and roadsides.
Bloom Period: April – November (usually post rainfall events)
Plant Use:
Key to species of Cooperia:
- Perianth yellow…………………………………………………………………………………C. jonesii
Perianth white………………………………………………………………………………………………..2
2. Ovary peduncled……………………………………………………………………C. pedunculata
Ovary sessile or rarely subsessile……………………………. …………………………………3
3. Style usually higher than stamens; plant delicate……………………..C. troubii
Style usually equaling stamens or lower………………………….C. drummondii
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