Dear All, John Ingram asked about this plant at a time I was too busy to respond. I hoped someone else would field the answer, but I don't think they did. He wondered if a plant he had seen with Delphinium cardinale that he thought was a green spider plant could have been Chlorogalum pomeridianum. I'm not sure what plant he means by a green spider plant (hymenocallis?). John could you perhaps give us a scientific name of what you thought it was? We had a picture of Chlorogalum flowers as a cover for an issue of BULBS and offered prizes to people who could identify it. Two Southern California people were able to do it. Unfortunately the picture was a scan of a print and it didn't enlarge very well at all which made identification even harder. Chlorogalum pomeridianum is a bulb found on grassy road banks, open meadows, and slopes in southern Oregon and California. It has basal rosettes of attractive wavy margined leaves that appear late winter and widely branched panicles of fragrant starry flowers that bloom in summer on stems to 2 1/2 ft. (76 cm.) The flowers open late afternoon, are pollinated by night insects, and fade by morning. Flowers appear over a long period. All parts of this plant were used by native Americans in a variety of ways including using the lather from the crushed bulb for bathing, washing clothes, and as a shampoo. From this use comes the common name of this plant, Soap Plant. I've made a page for the wiki and added some pictures taken yesterday of plants in my garden. It is hard to take a picture of the flowers since it opens so late it is usually in the shade or there isn't much light. Bob put cardboard behind it so the camera would focus on the flower but doing that means you can't really appreciate how it looks so we'll try again. It is a plant I am fond of. I like the leaves and the starry flowers are quite charming. I make a point of looking for it in my garden when I know it is going to open. I often see the leaves when I am out hiking as it is very common here, but the flowers are never open then. I have grown if from seed and relocated some to a better part of my garden when it was dormant late fall. The bulb is huge in established plants. It seeds itself a bit around my garden but is carefree so I usually don't dig all the seedlings out. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… There are other species of Chlorogalum. Two of them are found in other parts of the state so I don't think they could be what John saw. Two others that are found in Southern California have flowers that open during the day. One, C. purpureum, has purple flowers and is found in the south-central Coast Ranges. Another C. parviflorum is found on dry coastal sage scrub from central and southern California to Baja. It is described in Bulbs of North America. For some strange reason the other species are not included. There might be pictures on the Jepson Herbarium web page of the different species and I understand Calflora is also back online. I find it quite fascinating that this genus which was another one that was included in Liliaceae in The Jepson manual is slated to join Camassia in the Agavaceae family. I hope this helps. Mary Sue