On 6/6/2020 10:40 PM, Kipp McMichael wrote: > Hmmm - this looks alot like C. palmeri. Here's an image from the web: > https://calflora.org/cgi-bin/viewphoto.cgi/… > > This tends to grow in seasonally moist mountain meadows so it might > need a particular pattern of winter & spring moisture. I've seen this > in habitat(s) have not yet grown this one myself. > > -|<ipp > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks so much Kipp. It looks like Calochortus palmeri var. munzii. When the Mariposa Society used to offer seeds I tried a lot of them, usually without getting them to flowering size. I started that variety in 2001 and noted that it germinated, but it never appears again in my records so it no doubt didn't come back. I also started C. palmeri January 2003 and ended up with 3 little bulbs, but it too disappears from my records after a few years. Maybe I consolidated those bulbs with some other pot or added the soil to a Calochortus pot rather than throwing it out. We are going to look at the rainfall pattern (as my husband has been recording that for a number of years) for 2010-2011 and see if there are similarities to this year. Is this a reason not to throw out seedling pots you think have no bulbs in them? I'm pleased to know what it is and I see from the wiki that Nhu saw one flowering at the Tilden garden in Berkeley. I'm surprised it survived since it is native to southern California mountains and I live in low elevation coastal northern California. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
