Bloomeria humilis
Pl. Life 11: 21, plate 2 (right), fig. 1. 1955.
Common names: Dwarf golden star
EndemicConservation concern
Leaves usually 1–2, 5–30 cm × 3–15 mm. Scape 5–10 cm, minutely scabrous. Flowers: tepals ascending at base, then gradually spreading, connate basally for ca. 1 mm, yellow with brownish purplish midvein, 7–11 mm; filaments parallel to style, dilated bases 2.5–4 mm, often smooth, connate into nectariferous cup; anthers 1.5–1.8 mm; ovary 2 mm; style 6 mm; pedicel 1–5 cm.
Phenology: Flowering spring.
Habitat: Grasslands, chaparral edges, open mesas on ocean bluffs
Elevation: 0–100 m
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Bloomeria humilis is rare, known only from a single location on the California coast.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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basifixed +
articulate +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
articulate +
connate +
dilated +
keeled +
narrow +
absent +
2;4 +
Dwarf golden star +
solid +
fibrous-coated +
arising +
Calif. +
fleshy +
parallel +
slender +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +
single +
loculicidal +
simple +
persistent +
brownish purplish +
sessile +
superior +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
anatropous +
several +
raylike +
erect +
showy +
3-carpellate +
Pl. Life +
1955 +
scabrous +
cylindrical +
slender +
rigid +
wind-distributed +
angular +
black +
wrinkled +
subovoid +
slightly shorter +
epitepalous +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
3-lobed +
splitting +
persistent +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +
Bloomeria humilis +
Bloomeria +
species +
oblong-linear +
yellow +
persistent +
connate +
absent +
subrotate +
equal +
greener +
equal +
narrower +
scapose +
perennial +
woody +