Habit: Cormlets generally sessile.
Leaf: 2--5, generally keeled, entire, glabrous, occasionally withered by flowering.
Inflorescence: raceme- or umbel-like, generally dense; scape generally curved, twisted, or twining, cylindric; bracts +- papery; pedicels generally < flowers.
Flower: perianth tube cylindric to bell-shaped, appendages on outer lobes at junction of tube, forming crown; staminodes 0 (3, stamen-like); stamens 3, equal, anthers attached at base; style 1, stigma weakly 3-lobed.
Fruit: generally sessile, generally ovoid, 3-angled.
Seed: sharp-angled, black-crusted.
Species In Genus: 4 species: western United States, especially northern California, northern Mexico.
Etymology: (Greek: toothed crown, from perianth appendages)
Jepson eFlora Author: J. Chris Pires, Glenn Keator & Robert E. Preston
Reference: Keator 1992 Four Seasons 9:24--39; Mabberley 2015 Madroño 62:137--138
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Dichelostemma
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