Habit: Corm +- spheric, daughter corms 1--3 on stalks.
Leaf: 1--8, keeled, entire, withered in flower.
Inflorescence: scape stiff, straight, cylindric, minute-scabrous; bracts 2--4, not enclosing flower buds, scarious in flower; pedicels ray-like, ascending to erect, jointed; flowers 10--35+.
Flower: perianth parts +- free at base, not forming obvious tube, golden-yellow, striped +- brown or green, lobes ascending to spreading; stamens 6, filaments +- 6 mm, parallel to style, dilated bases fused to form nectar cup with shallow to awned cusps, or leaning away from style, leaving dilated bases separated, not forming cup, distally thread-like, anthers attached near base; style +- 5 mm, thread- or club-like, persistent, stigma 3-lobed.
Fruit: 5--6 mm, +- spheric, 3-angled, sessile.
Seed: angled, wrinkled, black-crusted.
Species In Genus: 3 species: central and southern California, northern Baja California.
Etymology: (Dr. H.G. Bloomer, early San Francisco botanist, one of three founders of the California Academy of Sciences)
Jepson eFlora Author: J. Chris Pires
Unabridged Reference: Hoover 1955 Herbertia 11:13--23; Ingram 1953 Madroño 12:19--27Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Bloomeria
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