Robert Preston is the man who has done work on what they call the Brodiaea complex and the main change that I've seen lately is to remove Dichelostemma capitatum from Dichelostemma and back to an earlier name in a genus with it as the only representative, although there are subspecies. This species differs from the others in that genus by having 6 stamens and if you read Preston's paper has had a checkered past in terms of naming. This species is commonly known as Blue Dicks and is widespread in California. On the wiki we have a lot of photos from different counties and it varies greatly in size and time of flowering. It looks like we get to keep the common name. Calflora hasn't changed it yet, nor has the Flora of North America, but Jepson has. You can read about it here: http://phytoneuron.net/2017Phytoneuron/… Dipterostemon capitatus (Benth.) Rydb. BLUE DICKS Dipterostemon capitatus (Benth.) Rydb. subsp. capitatus Dipterostemon capitatus subsp. lacuna-vernalis (L.W. Lenz) R.E. Preston VERNAL POOL BLUE DICKS Dipterostemon capitatus subsp. pauciflorus (Torr.) R.E. Preston These kind of changes play havoc with photos on the wiki as keys often require information not readily apparent (like size of filaments, perianth, sometimes corms, height, etc.) Since this change hasn't been widely adopted I guess I can put off worrying about that for awhile. But Jane I think there continues to be great variation in the forms of Triteleia laxa and I'm hoping no one is going to split them up into different species. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…