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Common Star Lily (Toxicoscordion fremontii)
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Flower
Yellow
White
3 or 6 Petals
Basal
Typical Height
Perennial
Native
Description
Height to 4 ft.
EW Bloom Feb - Sep
It's easy to spot Star Lily, with its bright white starry flowers clustering 3 or 4 feet in the air, and its long narrow leaves.
It's found in California coastal ranges on grassy, scrub-covered or wooded slopes.
CA native.
Endemic
to the
California Floristic Province
.
AKA Fremont's Star Lily, Star Lily, Death Camas
False-hellebore Family (Melanthiaceae)
Star-shaped flowers cluster to form a pyramid shape at the top of an erect, thick stem.
Each petal-like
tepal
is separate and ends in a point. They have raised yellow dots near the center. These are
nectar
glands.
Flowers grow on sturdy stems that are perhaps 3 feet tall. Note the long leaves with parallel veins.
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Star Lily has long [[basal]] leaves, about 14" long. The leaves have parallel veins and fold upward from the middle vein. They have an arching shape ...
Smaller narrow leaves, up to 6" long, grow directly from the stem in a spiraling, [[alternate]] arrangement. All parts of this plant are toxic to p ...
Star Lily is a [[perennial]], with a bulb that persists across growing seasons. New greenery sprouts from it each year. Roots at the bottom of the ...
Six white petal-like [[tepals]] have conspicuous raised veins with a swollen, glistening [[nectary]] gland at the base of each vein (yellow in this ph ...
The flowers are handsome stars of white, yellow and green. As they bloom, each flower's stalk grows to about 1/2", making a pyramid shape with unop ...