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Blue Dick, Desert Hyacinth

dichelostemma capitatum

Description:

The flowers are clustered in umbel-like heads at the tops of tall, leafless flower stalks. The individual flowers are 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide and have 6 petal-like segments. The leaves are green, narrowly linear, and grasslike. The crushed leaves smell like onions. The plants reproduce both by their swollen, onion-like, underground corms (bulbs) and by seed. Culturally Significant Plant – Native Americans traditionally gathered the corms for food. Edible – The starchy corms are edible, but the plants are protected (see below), so do not eat them. Legal Status – The subspecies D. capitatum ssp. pauciflorum is a Protected Native Plant (Salvage Restricted). http://www.fireflyforest.com/flowers/983...

Habitat:

Chaparral

Notes:

This is the first time I've seen them, possibly due to extra rain received in the region this winter.

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Bill Richie
Spotted by
Bill Richie

Riverside, California, USA

Spotted on Apr 8, 2011
Submitted on Apr 8, 2011

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