Triteleia ixioides, known as prettyface or golden star, is a monocotyledon flowering plant in the genus Triteleia. It is native to northern and central California and southwestern Oregon, where it can be found in coastal and inland coniferous forests and other habitat. It is a perennial wildflower growing from a corm. It produces one to two basal leaves up to 50 centimeters long by 1.5 wide. The inflorescence arises on an erect stem up to 80 centimeters tall. It is an umbel-like cluster of several flowers each borne on a pedicel up to 7 centimeters long. The flowers are variable in size, measuring one to nearly three centimeters in length. They are pale to bright yellow, or sometimes purple-tinged white. There are six tepals with darker midveins in shades of green, brown, or purple. The lobes are funnel-shaped and may open flat or somewhat reflexed. The six stamens form a fused tube that protrudes from the corolla; they have broad, flat filaments and whitish, yellowish, or blue anthers. Description Triteleia ixioides is a perennial, herbaceous, monocotyledon plant growing from an underground corm. The plant produces one or two grass-like, linear leaves about long by wide that emerge from the top of the corm in early spring. Like an onion, the leaves have a keel (longitudinal ridge) on the underside and a channel on the upper side with straight margins and a smooth surface. In mature plants, the leaves are followed by production of a stiff, cylindrical scape (flower stalk) that is tall, diameter, and is mostly smooth although sometimes scabrous at the base. At the top of the scape are several thin green bracts that enclose the developing buds. As the flowers emerge these membranes peel back and shrivel. The flowers are borne in an umbel (like an onion flower), with each on a slightly upcurved pedicel long (up to in subspecies cookii) connected to the top of the scape. As with all Triteleia species, each flower has six tepals (three in an outer whorl and three in an inner whorl) that are fused into a perianth tube at the base but then separate into distinct lobes surrounding the mouth of the flower. Triteleia ixioides flowers range from straw-colored to golden yellow (or very occasionally white flushed with purple), with the colors of the upper and lower tepal surfaces similar. Each lobe has a distinct single midvein, which is generally