Hastingsia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, known generally as rushlilies. These are small perennial herbs endemic to serpentine soils of the Siskiyou-Klamath region in northern California and SW Oregon in the United States.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesBiota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps They reach heights between 25 and 90 centimeters and have long linear leaves and racemes of small white flowers.
Species:Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 310, Hastingsia S. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 14: 217, 242. 1879.
Hastingsia alba (Durand) S.Watson - white rushlily - California and Oregon Hastingsia atropurpurea Becking - Oregon Hastingsia bracteosa S.Watson - largeflower rushlily - Oregon Hastingsia serpentinicola Becking - Klamath rushlily - California and Oregon
Name The genus is named after Serranus Clinton Hastings, a 19th-century California businessman and judge. Hastings created and endowed the Hastings College of Law. In 2020, a commission of Hastings College concluded that in the 1850s Serranus Hastings facilitated the genocide of the Yuki people in Mendocino County. In November 2021, the Board of Directors of Hastings College voted to change the name of the institution.
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Jepson Manual Treatment USDA Plants Profile Flora of North America