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This species is found on coastal prairie, grasslands and some open forest floors. [7] Its range is along the coastal ranges from region to the northern Santa Barbara County Channel Islands and mainland, Northwestern California, the Sacramento Valley, and the Sierra Nevada foothills from there to the Tehachapi Mountains.
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The plant is endemic to California. It is found only in the North California Coast Ranges, Southern Cascade Range, and Northern Sierra Nevada. [13] Calochortus coeruleus is a distinctive plant bearing flowers with light blue spade-shaped petals covered in brushlike hairs. [13]
Calochortus monophyllus is a North American species of flowering plants in the lily family known by the common name yellow star-tulip. [3] [4] [5] [6]Calochortus monophyllus is endemic to California.
Tulip trees are susceptible to infestation from tulip-tree aphids and tulip-tree scales. Tulip-tree aphids are small pink or green insects. Tulip-tree scales are roughly 1/4-inch-long insects with ...
The tulip tree is a plot element in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" (1843). [43] Walt Whitman observed in 1876-77 a 70 foot tall tulip tree and how "from top to bottom, seeking the sweet juice in the blossoms, it swarms with myriads of these wild bees, whose loud and steady humming makes an undertone to the whole." He referred to ...
Calochortus tolmiei is a North American species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the common names Tolmie's star-tulip and pussy ears. [2] [3] It was discovered by and named for Dr. William Fraser Tolmie. It is native to the west coast of the United States: Washington, Oregon, and northern California as far south as Santa Cruz ...
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