Calliprora scabra Greene, Erythea 3: 126. 1895; Brodiaea ixioides (W. T. Aiton) S. Watson var. scabra (Greene) Smiley; B. lutea (Lindley) C. V. Morton var. scabra (Greene) Munz; B. scabra (Greene) Baker; Calliprora aurantea Kellogg; Triteleia ixioides var. scabra (Greene) Hoover; T. scabra (Greene) Hoover

Leaves 1–2, 10–50 cm. Scape 20–50 cm, usually scabrous. Flowers: perianth usually straw-colored to pale yellow, tube 3–7 mm, much shorter than lobes, lobes ascending to reflexed, 10–20 mm; short filaments 4–5 mm, long filaments 5–7 mm, apical appendages long, slender, straight to recurved; anthers cream or yellow, occasionally blue; pedicel 1–9 cm. 2n = 10 (11), 16, 24, 32.

Flowering spring (Mar--May, later at higher altitudes). Scrub edges, mixed or coniferous forests, foothill woodlands, valley grasslands, in clay and granite soils; 200--2200 m; Calif.