White Globe Lily (Calochortus albus) Login         


        Description
  • Height 1 - 2 ft.
  • EW Bloom Apr - Jun
  • This is one of the beautiful globe lilies.
  • A single, shiny, basal leaf grows along the ground and persists after the rest of the plant dies back.
  • Stem leaves are shorter.
  • Widespread in shady to open areas, often on slopes and rocks.
  • CA native.
  • AKA White Fairy Lantern
  • Lily Family (Liliaceae)



Beautiful white to pink globe flowers hang down from slender arching stems.



A pair of leafy bracts grow above the nodding flower. Petals overlap slightly and almost close together at the tip.



Normally closed, this open flower shows crescent-shaped nectaries and sparse but long hairs.

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In this picture, a pair of pendant flowers emerge from a pair of leaf-like [[bracts]]. The flowers have three large petals that bulge outward, form ...

The two left-hand flowers have been pollinated and their petals are falling away, revealing their developing fruit. The fruit is a 3-part capsule f ...

Here's a beautiful fairy lantern flower in full bloom. The petals have hair at their edges, perhaps to pick up pollen stuck to the back of visiti ...

Wow! Makes me smile.

The yellow shapes are the backs of nectaries - troughs in the petal where nectar (sugar water) is offered to visitors. Pollinators go inside the gl ...