At 10:18 PM 11/9/2011, John Wickham wrote: > I've found the Dichelostemma capitatum produce droppers wildly > around the pot instead of offsets or cormlets , with other > Dichelostemma species produce offsets or cormlets (sometimes > profusely) directly attached to the basal plate. In going through a box of papers we just found an article in The Four Seasons written by Glenn Keator about Dichelostemma. In his comments about D. capitatum he writes: "It is important to note that this species stands alone because of its early flowering, stoloniferous offsets, epigeous germination, and two sets of fertile stamens, small alternating with large. " It is also very wild spread, found from sea level to 7000 ft (2133 m). It grows from Oregon to Baja California and off shore Islands. Glen describes 17 different plant communities it is found in and he doesn't include serpentine (we saw some dwarf looking ones growing in such a habitat.) So it would seem for this species that knowing the source of your seeds would be important for successfully siting and growing them. I recommended you look at the wiki page: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… and look at Nhu's photos of the roots of this species and then click show more to see variations from many different places. Mary Sue