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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Tofieldia
|accepted_authority=Hudson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Angl. ed.
|place=2, 157. 1778
|year=1778
}}
|common_names=False asphodel
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Tofieldia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tofieldia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Thomas Tofield, 1730–1779, English botanist
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 11, 56, 58, 62
|treatment_page=page 60
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> scapelike, sometimes with 1–3 leaves near base, smooth. <b>Leaves</b> equitant, 2-ranked; blade linear. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemose, open to dense, sometimes spikelike, bracteate, sometimes bracteolate, elongating in fruit; bracteoles connate in epicalyx. <b>Flowers</b> inserted singly; tepals persistent, 6, in 2 somewhat dissimilar series, distinct; stamens 6; filaments dilated basally, strongly flattened (except <i>T. coccinea</i>); anthers basifixed, 2-locular, introrse, without appendages; ovary superior, stipitate, apocarpous basally, glabrous; intercarpellary nectary present; styles 3. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, broadly ellipsoid to globose or obovoid, chartaceous, glabrous, dehiscence septicidal, then adaxially loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, without appendages. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Species 7 or 8 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Following the example of J. G. Baker (1879) and R. R. Gates (1918), this treatment of <i>Tofieldia</i> excludes the species of sect. <i>Triantha</i>, which is recognized instead as a distinct genus; see J. G. Packer (1993). <i>Tofieldia</i> sometimes has been treated very broadly, to include not only <i>Triantha</i> but also <i>Pleea</i> (W. B. Zomlefer 1997c).</p>
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Margins of bracts 3-lobed; bracteoles absent.
|[[Tofieldia pusilla|Tofieldia pusilla]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Margins of bracts ± entire; bracteoles 3-lobed.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stems 2–20 cm; inflorescences 0.5–2.5 cm; tepals 2–2.5 mm.
|[[Tofieldia coccinea|Tofieldia coccinea]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stems 25–90 cm; inflorescences 3–25 cm; tepals 3–4.5 mm.
|[[Tofieldia glabra|Tofieldia glabra]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tofieldia
|author=John G. Packer
|authority=Hudson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=North America;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Angl. ed.
|publication year=1778
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_26.xml
|genus=Tofieldia
}}<!--

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