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Calochortus plummerae produces thin, branching stems and a few long curling leaves. [6] Atop the stem is a lily bloom with long, pointed sepals and petals which may be up to 4 centimeters long. The petals are pink, lavender, or white with a wide yellow band across the middle. They are hairy inside and sometimes fringed with hairs.
The genus Calochortus includes approximately 70 species distributed from southwestern British Columbia, through California and Mexico, to northern Guatemala and eastwards to New Mexico, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Calochortus is the most widely dispersed genus of Liliaceae on the North American Pacific Coast. [7] Of these, 28 species are endemic ...
Allium obtusum – Red Sierra onion, subalpine onion; Allium yosemitense – Yosemite onion (sn-endemic) Calochortus amoenus – Purple fairy-lantern (sn-endemic) Calochortus luteus – Yellow mariposa lily (ca-endemic) Calochortus plummerae – Plummer's mariposa lily (ca-endemic) Calochortus venustus – Butterfly mariposa lily (ca-endemic)
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The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.
Calochortus fuscus is a bulbous perennial plant with small, dark-red flowers. Its upright glaucous stem, 30–60 cm in height, bears a basal leaf 20–20 cm in length, as well as cauline leaves, bracts, and two to four blooms.
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Calochortus fimbriatus is a bulb-forming perennial herb producing a slender, branching stem 30 to 110 centimeters tall. [4] There is a basal leaf up to 40 centimeters long which appears in January and withers long before the plant blooms in late June or early July. The bloom continues until mid-August. [5]