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From Spring Blooming Crocus Two on Monday 31st of August 2026 06:59:43 PM PDT
Crocus cvijicii Kosanin is native to Serbia, Greece, Albania, and Macedonia and is found in Alpine meadows blooming as the snow melts. It has showy yellow flowers with an orange stigma and blooms in spring just as the leaves are emerging. (In case you're wondering, the name is in honor of Joran Cvijic, a leading authority on the geology of Macedonia in the 1920s. Bowles wrote, "I have never discovered how this name should be pronounced, whether it is better to imitate a sneeze or, as a witty friend of mine put it, 'to play it on the violin.'") Height range: 8-10 cm. First photo by Tony Goode, second by John Lonsdale.
From Brachycorythis on Sunday 30th of August 2026 05:35:10 PM PDT
Brachycorythis macowaniana Rchb.f. is a South African species found in grassland or restio veld in the Southern Cape from Swellendam to the Eastern Cape. Growing from 10 to 23 cm, it has narrowly lanceolate leaves and small flowers in a dense raceme. Sepals are brownish, petals green and the lip cream to yellow, sometimes with a central green stripe. Flowering is November to December, after fire. Photos from the CD for the book Plants of the Klein Karoo courtesy of Jan and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok.
From Favorite Yellow Flowered Bulbs Two on Sunday 30th of August 2026 01:25:54 AM PDT
Iris xiphium -- Jamie Vande, Germany.
From Typhonium on Friday 28th of August 2026 05:56:33 PM PDT
Typhonium pedunculatum Hett. & Sookch. is an evergreen species growing from a rhizome endemic to southeastern Thailand. Photo from Robert Parks who is growing it in a 4 inch pot under lights who described it as: "Remarkably showy, very fast opening, at dusk yesterday it was still straight up and wrapped snugly. Odd relatively faint chemical-y odor, unpleasant but unidentifiable." Height range: to about 30 cm.
From Pterostylis on Thursday 27th of August 2026 05:08:38 PM PDT
Pterostylis dilatata A.S.George, syn. Linguella dilatata (A.S.George) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. is known as the robust snail orchid. It is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Flowering plants lack a rosette but have a single green and white flower on a flowering stem 5–15 cm (2–6 in) tall. The first two photos from iNaturalist were taken by ramcad1 and sarraj in Western Australia in July and June and shared under a CC BY-NC license. The last photo was photographed by Bob Rutemoeller in a forested area in southwestern Western Australia September 2007. Malcolm Thomas suspects it is this species.
From Hesperocallis on Wednesday 26th of August 2026 05:02:00 PM PDT
Hesperocallis undulata A.Gray, commonly known as the Desert Lily, has deep seated, tunicated bulbs, glaucous leaves and straight stout stems. Flowers are large, white with a silver or green midstripe and are fragrant, especially at night. Height range: to about 60 cm. Found in sandy flats of creosote brush desert scrub in some of the most arid regions of North America (deserts of southeastern California, Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, and southwesten Arizona), it flowers only after infrequent rains. Because this "Desert Lily" is very beautiful, bulb fanciers would love to bring it into horticulture. The seeds germinate easily in winter when grown in a well-drained mix. It is important to keep the seedlings in growth and not allow them to go dormant. Once the seedlings go dormant, getting them to break dormancy is a challenge. Even a few who have gotten them to come into growth again have not had success in getting plants to bloom. How to grow this plant is a recurring topic of the PBS list see here. If anyone ever gets it to bloom in cultivation and reports how they did it, we will add your techniques. Photos below were taken by Jamie Boothe in January in the scenic area between Salton Sea and Borrego Springs, probably less than 10 miles west of the Salton Sea.
The photos below were taken by Nhu Nguyen in late March 2010 in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Seasonal weather averages for this area is (night/day) 41-70 °F (5-21 °C) from December to February, 70-100 °F (21-37 °C) in June and 75-105 °F (24-45 °C) in July-September. Regardless of the time of year, the day-night fluctuation is usually around 30 degrees F (16 degrees C). These temperature fluctuations could be a clue to successfully growing this species.
The following photos were taken by John Longanecker April 1, 2005 near Baker in the Mojave Desert preserve and near 29 Palms, CA. Note the variation in the grey streak on the petals.
From Kohleria on Tuesday 25th of August 2026 06:19:00 PM PDT
Kohleria warszewiczii (Regel) Hanst. is native to Colombia. Height: to about 2 ft. The photos below were taken by J. Schofield.
From Favorite White Flowered Bulbs on Monday 24th of August 2026 06:36:43 PM PDT
Crinum 'White Queen' -- flowered last year for me and was awesome, Kevin Preuss, Florida.
From Brodiaea Species Two on Sunday 23rd of August 2026 06:35:45 PM PDT
Brodiaea sierrae R.E.Preston is a diploid species from the Sierra Nevada foothills of California (Butte, Yuba, and Napa counties) where it grows in chaparral, cismontane woodland, and lower montane coniferous forest often on serpentine soils between 50 and 980 m (most species between 320 and 945 m.) Growing from 20 to 80 cm, it has violet ascending flowers with recurved tips and flowers May to August. It was previous included in Brodiaea californica and is similar to Brodiaea leptandra, a species formerly (and still by some authorities) considered a subspecies or variety of Brodiaea californica. It has larger flowers than those other two species with lobes up to 53 mm long and different staminodes from Brodiaea california. It has staminodes that are uniformly wide and recurved only at the tip with entire margins 1/4 inrolled. Brodiaea californica has staminodes that are recurved from the middle and narrow at the apex with undulate-dentate margins. Photos from Calflora taken by David Greenberger and Steve Laymon in Butte County and shared under a CC BY-NC license.
From Favorite Purple Flowered Bulbs on Saturday 22nd of August 2026 09:40:57 PM PDT
Colchicum -- is one of my favorite plants, and sometimes they look purple, sort of... Jim Shields in central Indiana, USDA Zone 5.
